RFK's Proposal to Let Bird Flu Spread Through Poultry Could Set Us Up for a Pandemic, Experts Warn

Sunday, July 06, 2025

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms.

Posted by retort at 07:13 PM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

Earlier this year, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr made a controversial suggestion as to how to tackle the problem of H5N1 bird flu: consider letting it run through poultry farms. Bad idea then, still a bad idea now, say experts. www.iflscience.com/rfk-jr-sugge ...

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-- IFLScience (@iflscience.com) Jul 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM

Comments

Madness.

Welcome to Darkness.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 07:19 PM

This makes you wonder about the Trumpf junta plan to eradicate screwworm: www.aphis.usda.gov

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 07:34 PM

Well, that's one way to get rid of a lot of poor people. Then, where are they going to get their slaves?

#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-06 07:43 PM

Didn't Dummkopf Trumpf appoint the CEO of Chick-fil-A to the cabinet during his first Reign of Terror? And doesn't the Dotard like McDonald's, which serves Chicken McNuggets? Isn't there anybody in the White House yelling into Trumpf's ear-horn about stupid ideas? st.depositphotos.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 07:52 PM

Freedom at work.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-06 08:08 PM

So long as egg prices stay down, I don't see a problem.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-06 08:58 PM

Everyone should get their flu shots as soon as possible.

Read "The Great Influenza" if you want a terrifying read. Millions died. People who appeared healthy were dead 36 hours later. Actions by the unknowing made things worse. It could happen here again ...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-06 09:02 PM

Go to the 1918 parts of old Cemetaries and you will find quite a cluster.

#8 | Posted by mattm at 2025-07-06 10:23 PM

#7: www.nydailynews.com

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 10:52 PM

re: #8 MattM

Interesting. Next time I'm in an old cemetery, I hope I remember to do that.

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-06 11:22 PM

Looks like I'm getting outta the country again at the right time, sheesh

#11 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-06 11:22 PM

Happened to see a vid today exploring an old coal mining town in sw Wyoming where many to most of the tombstones are 1918-20 when much of the town was wiped out by the Great Flu.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-06 11:32 PM

#8 and 10: Years ago someone photographed and collected real, humorous headstones from all over North America. I remember one said "For the first time in my life, my wife was right, it was cancer. John Doe Born: 7/7/38 Taken: 10/24/1989."

This is the closest I could find to that album: www.pinterest.com

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 11:39 PM

Kinda random, but I just finished re-watching Zeta Gundam (yes, I'm a dork), and the Titans reminded me of MAGA (corrupt xenophobic brutes, the ends justify the means, germ warfare against underling civilians), while the AEUG reminded me of progressives (humanitarians, empaths, reformers).

The connection I made here is the germ warfare.

#14 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-06 11:43 PM

re: #13 Coriolanus

Awww, "Stupid" and "

#15 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-06 11:47 PM

Let's try that again. "Stupid" and "I'm with Stupid" side-by-side made me laugh and is kinda sweet, too

#16 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-06 11:49 PM

- Zeta Gundam

I'm still waiting for the second season of Blue Eye Samaria.

www.youtube.com

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-06 11:51 PM

re: #17 Corky

Will need to add that to the queue, too, looks cool!

#18 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-07 12:15 AM

Samurai.

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 12:15 AM

Heroin scrambled RFK Jr's brain.

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-07 01:33 AM

Samurai.

#19 | Posted by Corky

Ha! You just reminded me of a time shortly after my wife and I got married and bought our first house together.

She's get mad at what she thought I was thinking, about her, of course. She was wrong 100% of the time.

Anyway, a couple years after we got married, she stormed out, slamming the door to let me know how PO'd she was at what she thought I was thinking.

So, while she was driving (to the store and back as it turned out), I set up a seppuku (hari kari) altar in front of the fireplace, complete with incense, and donned a Japanese silk robe covered in kanji she'd given me for Christmas, tied the kanji-filled sash around my forehead, and waited ...

When I heard her drive in, I knelt in front of my ad hoc seppuku altar. When she walked in, I did a John Belushi samurai warrior impression with a butcher knife, as though threatening to use it on myself. She broke down in laughter and never "guessed" at what she thought I was thinking. LOL

#21 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-07 01:57 AM

Only The Weak Will Fail!

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 10:37 AM

Nobody in this administration will leave their area of responsibility better off than they found it.
Nobody.

#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-08 05:57 AM

#21
AU -
You're lucky she didn't smile, run her fingers down the blade of a fine samurai sword, and murmur, "You appear to be in need of a second."

#24 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-08 06:01 AM

Berd immunity

#25 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-07-08 12:50 PM

I remind everyone that RFK has no scientific background unless you count experimenting with heroin.

#26 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-08 07:20 PM

Nobody in this administration will leave their area of responsibility better off than they found it.
Nobody.
#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Oh, I agree.
Serious question about scope, though:
Has any Republican ever done that, in your life?

Because to my eyes what you describe is the norm, not the exception.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 07:30 PM

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