The US Health Secretary wants to let bird flu spread across the nation's farms without intervention, and then breed the chickens that survive. Is it science or small government ideology?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the man in charge of the USA's health policy, has come up with a new plan for tackling the potential threat of bird flu: let it spread like wildfire through farms.

thinks that the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked ... immunity,” Rollins said on Fox News in February. If this plan actually goes into effect, the virus would spread among a larger ...

Photo courtesy of the Shelby County Ag Promotion Committee. Just a few weeks ago, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a $1 Billion plan stop the spread of bird flu, protect the U.S. poultry ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

According to a new study, factory farm ventilation systems could worsen matters by facilitating the airborne transmission of bird flu. In April 2024, the USDA reported that bird flu was likely ...

Bird flu has done a fine job of spreading in the US since 2023. It hasn’t been government policy to let the virus spread among America’s chickens instead of culling sick ones, but it may ...

The U.S. Agricultural Department has announced a new effort to fight bird flu. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Leah Douglas, agriculture and energy reporter at Reuters, about the $1 billion plan.

As bird flu continues to sweep through poultry farms, forcing the culling of millions of birds, United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing a different approach: let the ...

RASCOE: What is the government's plan to combat bird flu and lower the price of eggs? What will it entail? DOUGLAS: Well, newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, on Wednesday, ...