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?

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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.

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

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 ...

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 just ...

His family’s chickens all have names, he said, adding “that tells you all you need to know.” According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, owners of backyard flocks are encouraged to stay ...

Recently, two Novato residents were surprised to find two great horned owlets on the ground by a large tree in their backyard ...

Even more pressingly, the group is concerned shooters could accidentally kill some of the last plains wanderers, a critically endangered bird that inhabits the same grasslands. And they've asked ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.