RFK Jr. warns against vaccinating birds amid avian flu: ‘You turn those flocks into mutation factories’

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RFK Jr. warns against vaccinating birds amid avian flu: ‘You turn those flocks into mutation factories’

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Kennedy explained that his main concern with inoculating chickens is that if the vaccine does not completely prevent infection it could help spawn new variants of bird flu that may be more likely to infect humans. 

“All of my agencies advise against vaccination of birds, 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,” the HHS secretary said in the interview, which aired Tuesday. 

“It’s much more likely to jump to animals if you do that,” Kennedy argued, noting that the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration “have all said we should not be vaccinating.”

“It’s dangerous for human beings to vaccinate the birds.”

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