It’s hard to imagine that your fondness for chicken tikka masala could have anything to do with the next killer pandemic I thought it was a smart looking duck, with a bottle-green head and a white collar separating it from its purplish brown breast, grey-brown wings and light belly.

It was called the mallard; my epidemiologist friend told me that it migrated vast distances every year, stopping to eat and excrete in fields and lakes along the way.

The mallards I was watching were wallowing in rice paddies at the Cambodia-Vietnam border, quacking friendly hellos to the farmyard chickens and ducks also browsing there.

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United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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