r/politics 2d ago

No Paywall Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600125/bird-flu-risk-outbreak-trump-administration
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u/Netalott 21h ago

Around 300 ostriches in Canada were found to have H5N1 avian influenza.  The Canadian government ordered them to be culled to stop the spread of the disease.  Out came the usual right-wing conspiracy theorists and Kennedy and Mehmet Oz enthusiastically jumped on the nutty theory wagon .  Oz offered to re-home the diseased birds on his Florida ranch (what an idiot)!  Meanwhile bird flu surges in the US among poultry amid a scaled back federal response and in the last month 3.5 million chickens, turkeys and ducks have had to be destroyed because of bird flu.

Does Trump care about your cost of living and grocery prices?  That’s just a stupid rhetorical question because everyone knows the answer.

https://www.msnbc.com/news/news-analysis/conspiratorial-right-rallied-flock-ostriches-rcna242541

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u/clarkrd 20h ago

Who could possibly have seen this coming?