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Posted on 06/23/2025 6:31:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports, the agency told Reuters this week.
The actions advance the government's assessment of a vaccine after the USDA received proposals on usage from associations representing egg and turkey producers whose farms have been devastated by the virus. Nearly 175 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have been culled in attempts to contain outbreaks since 2022 in the nation's worst animal-health emergency.
Losses of egg-laying chickens drove egg prices to records this year, prompting grocers to ration supplies, restaurants to hike prices, and food manufacturers to increase imports from countries including Turkey, Brazil and South Korea.
The USDA pledged to spend up to $100 million on research into vaccines and other therapies to combat bird flu after prices spiked.
Now, USDA and industry officials are pursuing a more solid, written plan to potentially show importers to gauge whether vaccinations would limit trading. Industry members expect the agency to complete the plan in July.
The USDA said this week that it is working with federal, state and industry officials to develop its potential plan and is engaging with trading partners.
"You need a more complete strategy and plan for them to consider," said Dr. John Clifford, a former USDA chief veterinary officer who advises the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council.
Debates over potential vaccinations have pitted poultry producers against each other since widespread outbreaks in 2015.
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Fish sounding better than ever.
Let nature take its course and the resistant birds that survive will live to reproduce.
NO!
no. natural immunity is the way to go.
It's almost there is a invisible wall in the sky.
Something to do with the PCR Test that the US uses?
You show me the bird and I'll show you the positive PCR result.
They need to form their own union.
Those poor chickens!
No, just NO!
Don’t these people get it, that a high percentage of the population simply doesn’t trust Big Pharma and the medical establishment, and that we won’t tolerate being experimented on or worse?
If they do this, I will boycott chicken unless it is thoroughly guaranteed NOT to have been vaccinated.
Where were we before the USDA was in our lives? A lot healthier and richer.....
I’m sure that their bird ‘vaccine’ will be just as safe and effective as the Covid ‘vaccines’.
But just to be certain the food supply can continue feed the remaining peasants , Bill Gates and his friends are growing synthetic chicken and turkey ‘meat’ and ‘eggs’ in their chemical vats.
To hell with that noise.
Ordering more meat birds tomorrow. Fill that freezer.
I’ll stop eating chicken. Have boneless, skinless chicken thighs every third night.
Leaving me with organic tofu and Alaskan wild-caught salmon/. Don’t think they’ll inoculate fish.
How about we require that EVERY USDA EMPLOYEE be vaccinated FIRST! Let them be the guinea pigs. Hey USDA, poison your own food first.
On another note, didn’t a FDA official refuse covid vaccine because she was pregnant?? Funny how that works.
I fully endorse every post on this thread.
Leave them chickens alone!
Have you ever eaten chicken while in Canada or Mexico?
If you have then you ate a vaccinated chicken as both nations vaccinate their flocks when there is bird flu cases. Mexico has since 1995.
We should just ask them for what they use but then again there is no money for big agri in that.
The issue with vaccination, and the reason that some countries will not accept imports of vaccinated birds, is that vaccines are not a shield that completely prevents disease. A vaccinated bird might have influenza and show minimal or no symptoms. Meanwhile, a person eating that bird would still be exposed to the virus and possibly catch it.
The US has taken the route of culling affected flocks because it is the only way to minimize the spread of avian influenza. Whenever a bird in a flock is diagnosed with HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza), the entire flock is culled. Without the culling, all birds in the flock will be dead within 24-48 hours and there is the danger that wild birds will become infected and spread it to other flocks.
Avian influenza is serious, not just because of the damage to the poultry industry, but also because of the risk that the influenza will mutate to a form that is easily spread among humans. Some avian influenza viruses have a 60% fatality rate in humans, but they don’t readily spread from human to human.
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