Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have been cut from the federal agency in charge of pandemic response

Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. “They should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flocks so that we can identify the birds,

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely in domestic and wild animals, while exact transmission routes remain unclear.