As bird influenza continues to outrage in the operation of American poultry farms, which prompted eggs to high prices, federal officials announced funding for bird influenza research projects, including new vaccine project funds and potential treatments.
US Minister of Agriculture, Brock Rollins, said on Thursday that her administration will invest $ 100 million in these research efforts, as part of a billion dollar initiative to fight bird flu and stop the high prices of eggs, Iowa Capital Dispatch mentioned.
Money will give priority to searching in bird flu in general and biological security plans. “Our experimental programs have proven that biological security is the most important thing for farmers that farmers can do to protect our herds from the disease, at least at the present time,” and the news port reported Rollins as saying.
While Rollins confirmed that there are no approved vaccines to prevent bird flu, she said: “I look forward to this next process of learning more, and accomplishing more research, and perhaps seeing what is logical to move forward, as soon as it is done.”
Ministry of Agriculture Declare On Wednesday that the Aphis health inspection service intensified vital security assessments. This expansion of assessments includes poultry farms that are not affected by bird flu.
Rollins said that the multi -faceted approach showed by its ministry had already shown “great progress” in combating egg prices in the high sentence. According to what was reported, the administration was that the major white eggs that were selling for $ 8 in wholesale in February, but are now $ 4.15.
Rollins also said that agricultural officials had mediated in agreements with Türkiye and South Korea to import more eggs to the United States. She also said that the United States was talking to another nation about bringing a “large” amount of eggs.
This advertisement follows employment issues in the department. In late February, agricultural officials said that they accidentally shot many employees who were working to respond to bird flu and were trying to reversed this termination.
The accidental cuts came amid Donald Trump’s request to reduce the size of the federal workforce. A spokesman for the department said that several jobs were exempt from the proposed cuts, According to NBC News.
The potential financing for vaccine and treatment also came as the best health official in the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, that farmers “should consider the possibility of leaving them through the herd so that we can identify birds and preserve birds, fortified on it.”
This stadium is from Kennedy – which is widely adopted by beliefs about modern medicine, including the wrong claim that vaccines are linked to autism – have pushed criticism from scientists.
“This is a truly terrible idea, for any one of the reasons,” Dr. Jil Hansen, a former veterinarian in Kansas, The New York Times was told.
Each infection is an opportunity for bird flu to a more powerful form – it is likely to spread among people. Moreover, the infections are not specified to workers in farms and NGOs.
“Now you put yourself to make bad things,” Hansen said. “It is a recipe for disaster.”
Rollins has already expressed support for this idea.
“There are some farmers who are ready to try it on a pilot and we are building the safe ocean around them to see if there is a way to move forward in immunity,” said Rollins in Fox News in February.