The United States is entering its fourth year of a near-continuous outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Despite leadership changes at the country’s top agricultural and public health authorities, the government is continuing the strategy of culling millions of birds to limit the spread of the disease.
A senior official who spoke with The Epoch Times said the culling is continuing because there is no better option available.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) refers to the strategy as “stamping out.”
Avian influenza, or bird flu, was first identified in China in the 1990s and has since spread worldwide through migratory wild birds….