USDA Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, in an exclusive Breitbart interview following her Wall Street Journal piece, has pulled bird flu vaccines off the table for good. Initially, she thought vaccinating hundreds of millions of chickens might end the crisis faster. But after digging into the data, she found countries like Mexico, which vaccinate egg-laying hens, still see 80-83% of those birds contract avian flu—despite getting jabbed 3-5 times each.
“Not only are we not mandating vaccines now,” Rollins said, “we won’t, frankly, ever.” This is huge—a total shift to transparency in science. Leaky vaccines, as RFK Jr. has warned, turn chickens into incubators for worse viruses. Rollins is proving it with hard numbers. The era of hiding the science is over.
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Exclusive — USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins: Vaccines ‘off the Table’ in Fight for Lower Egg Prices
by Matthew Boyle | 7 Mar 2025(breitbart.com) – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s administration will be focusing its egg price reduction efforts on repopulation of chickens and on biosecurity measures, and that the administration is now ruling out any vaccines for animals against avian bird flu…
The fifth plank of the plan, though, was the exploration of possible vaccines of livestock like chickens or cattle against the avian flu. But Rollins told Breitbart News that as she has learned more about such proposals, this will not be an effective way to deal with the issue—and ruled it out as a possibility, saying “I pulled that off the table” upon learning how ineffective such vaccines have been in other nations like Mexico.
“The fifth one, that has perhaps taken a little bit more of the space than I had assumed was the vaccine piece,” Rollins said. “The idea was that, initially before I rolled the plan out, the thought was maybe the vaccine is the solution here and that maybe we need to stick a couple hundred million chickens with vaccines so we could potentially move out of this crisis quicker. But what I learned is that looking at countries like Mexico that actually do vaccinate their egg-layers is that those chickens have to be stuck three or four or five times with those vaccine shots and then 80 to 83 percent of those chickens still get the avian bird flu. So I pulled that off the table and for a lot of reasons we are not going to be moving off the table on mandatory vaccines now or frankly ever. So putting that money into the research into making sure it’s effective and safe and in my conversations with the NIH and the CDC and others there are some real concerns on the vaccine side. One of my favorite and it sort of affected me significantly was Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska who is a fifth-generation farmer and is also a veterinarian, he said to me ‘Brooke, don’t ever forget, the virus always wins.’ I think that’s what we’re seeing. So that’s been an interesting piece of this, and I think the research on therapeutics is going to be very important perhaps pivoting away from a vaccine if necessary. And one other thing that has been falsely reported in the news is that the USDA approved a dairy cattle vaccine for the avian bird flu and that just was wrong. I think that has just moved into the process, but that won’t even get to my desk for another year or so. So a lot has to be done there, but also if at all possible the goal would be to move away from that as the answer.”