Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned earlier this year that vaccinating poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) viruses might transform farms into incubators for mutant viruses — viruses that could potentially leap to humans.
“All of my agencies have advised against the vaccination of birds,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “because if you vaccinate with a leaky vaccine — in other words, a vaccine that does not provide sterilizing immunity, that does not absolutely protect against the disease — you turn those flocks into mutation factories.”
“They’re teaching the organism how to mutate,” continued Kennedy. “And it’s much more likely to jump to animals if you do that.”
Despite Kennedy’s concern — which is apparently shared by the National Institutes of
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