{"id":26967,"date":"2025-05-01T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26967"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:23:54","slug":"upheaval-in-washington-hinders-campaign-against-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26967","title":{"rendered":"Upheaval in Washington Hinders Campaign Against Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Determined to cut costs and manage communications, the Trump administration is moving too slowly to contain the virus, experts say.<\/p>\n

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The campaign to curb bird flu on the nation\u2019s farms has been slowed by the chaotic transition to a new administration that is determined to cut costs, reduce the federal work force and limit communications, according to interviews with more than a dozen scientists and federal officials.<\/p>\n

On poultry farms, more than 168 million birds<\/a> have been killed in an effort to curtail outbreaks. Since the virus first appeared on American dairy cattle about a year ago, it has spread to 17 states and infected more than 1,000 herds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In its first months, the Trump administration has fired teams of scientists crucial to detecting the spread of the virus, canceled<\/a> important meetings<\/a>, and limited access to data even for federal scientists.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services has not held a public news briefing on bird flu since January, and did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has suggested allowing the virus to spread uncontrolled through poultry flocks to identify birds that might be immune, an idea that scientists called reckless and dangerous<\/a>. His comments prompted Democratic lawmakers to open an investigation<\/a> into the federal response.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has also eliminated funding for programs at the Food and Agriculture Organization, an agency at the United Nations, that monitor and contain bird flu in 49 countries.<\/p>\n

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Determined to cut costs and manage communications, the Trump administration is moving too slowly to contain the virus, experts say.The campaign to curb bird flu on the nation\u2019s farms has been slowed by the chaotic transition to a new administration that is determined to cut costs, reduce the federal work force and limit communications, according to interviews with more than a dozen scientists and federal officials.On poultry farms, more than 168 million birds have been killed in an effort to curtail outbreaks. Since the virus first appeared on American dairy cattle about a year ago, it has spread to 17 states and infected more than 1,000 herds.In its first months, the Trump administration has fired teams of scientists crucial to detecting the spread of the virus, canceled important meetings, and limited access to data even for federal scientists.The Department of Health and Human Services has not held a public news briefing on bird flu since January, and did not respond to requests for comment.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has suggested allowing the virus to spread uncontrolled through poultry flocks to identify birds that might be immune, an idea that scientists called reckless and dangerous. His comments prompted Democratic lawmakers to open an investigation into the federal response.The Trump administration has also eliminated funding for programs at the Food and Agriculture Organization, an agency at the United Nations, that monitor and contain bird flu in 49 countries.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26969,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26970,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967\/revisions\/26970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}