A professional veterinarian on Thursday dumped on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to let bird flu rip through American farms.
Appearing on CNN, former Kansas State Veterinarian Dr. Gail Hansen explained why exposing every chicken in the United States to bird flu will not create a race of super chickens with broad immunity to diseases.
"Most of the birds that are laying eggs... are pretty much from the same kind of stock," she said. "So they're the same breed, they're the same type of bird. They're not quite clones, but they're pretty close. So if you've got disease that's going to kill them, which it does, it's going to kill all of them... and even if you have one in a million, you've got, you know, the rest of them that are going to die a horrible death."
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She then suggested alternatives to letting flocks fall en masse to bird flu.
"If you look at what they do in a lot of Europe and what they do in Canada is the flocks are a little bit smaller, they're a little less dense," she said. "So the birds aren't quite connected so closely together. So you have a little less chance for them to get the disease. So doing that vaccination, which is we have a vaccine that's available, that's being used in some parts of the world just looking for other ways we can do they call biosecurity... making sure that the disease has less of a chance of getting into the flock."
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