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If the bird flu were to run through a flock of five million birds, "that's literally five million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate," Hansen said.

It could also put farm workers and other animals at risk.

Emily Hilliard, deputy press secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, defended Kennedy's stance.

"Culling puts people at the highest risk of exposure, which is why Secretary Kennedy and N.I.H. want to limit culling activities," Hilliard explained to The Times, referring to the National Institutes of Health. "Culling is not the solution. Strong biosecurity is."

However, experts argue that bird flu spreads too quickly for this to work. Infected poultry can often develop severe respiratory symptoms, tremors and diarrhea, and suddenly die.

"These infections would cause very painful deaths in nearly 100 percent of the chickens and turkeys," Dr. David Swayne, a poultry veterinarian who worked at the U.S.D.A. for nearly 30 years, told The Times.

Kennedy has suggested that some poultry may have natural immunity, but experts disagree.

"The way we raise birds now, there's not a lot of genetic variability," Hansen said. "They're all the same bird, basically."

What's more, allowing the virus to spread could also cause economic turmoil, experts say.

"There's a huge economic loss immediately," Dr. Keith Poulsen, the director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, told The Times.

Despite Kennedy's claim that wild birds appear immune, scientists point out that bird flu has killed many species, including raptors, waterfowl and sandhill cranes.

...this is so retarded it hurts.

OTHER SOURCES:
>https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-s-strategy-for-the-bird-flu-epidemic-spread-baby-spread-2000577779
>https://newrepublic.com/post/192916/rfk-jr-plan-bird-flu
>https://www.times-georgian.com/lifestyles/health/rfk-jr-suggests-letting-bird-flu-spread/article_9afcaeaa-1d87-548c-9141-ab0fcede5ed2.html

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