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UpInArms

(53,143 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 10:19 AM Jul 8

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn

This from a few days ago … but I think it should be given a bit of attention…

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High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can "identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.

Now, a perspective piece authored by a group of virologists, veterinarians and health security experts argues that the plan would not only be ineffective, but could also increase the risk of the virus spilling over into humans and sparking a new pandemic. The researchers published their arguments July 3 in the journal Science.

"Essentially, the longer you allow a virus that has shown to be effective in infecting multiple hosts survive in an environment, the greater the chance you give it to spread, to mutate, and to try its luck at adaptation," perspective first-author Erin Sorrell, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Live Science. "Worse case scenario, the virus adapts and expands its host range to become transmissible in humans … Now we have a pandemic."

More at:

https://www.livescience.com/health/flu/rfks-proposal-to-let-bird-flu-spread-through-poultry-could-set-us-up-for-a-pandemic-experts-warn

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RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn (Original Post) UpInArms Jul 8 OP
OMG DURHAM D Jul 8 #1
It's deliberate. Culling the population. Irish_Dem Jul 8 #2
Maybe the farmers can inject them Delarage Jul 8 #3

Delarage

(2,451 posts)
3. Maybe the farmers can inject them
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 07:25 PM
Jul 8

With bleach. Or insert bright light bulbs in their cloacas 😬

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