Experts Warn RFK's Proposal to Let Bird Flu Spread Could Lead to Pandemic

High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to 'rip' through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, f