Without a new policy including vaccines, the government will continue to slaughter every flock with a bird flu infection to limit the spread of the disease. Those deaths have totaled over 166 million birds in the U.S. since 2022.

Kennedy Jr. The Health and Human Services Secretary for the Trump administration- known for questioning vaccines- said that vaccinating American poultry stocks against the bird flu virus could turn them into "mutation factories.

Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year.