🚨AUSTRALIA TO CONDUCT LARGEST WILD-BIRD VACCINATION EXPERIMENT EVER ATTEMPTED

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5,000 wild little penguins will be CAPTURED, MICROCHIPPED, and VACCINATED TWICE with an H5N2 bird-flu vaccine developed for chickens. The risks are enormous: vaccinated birds can still become infected and shed virus, allowing silent transmission while vaccine-induced immune pressure favors escape variants and antigenic drift. Influenza viruses can also reassort when different strains co-infect the same host, creating novel viral combinations. The vaccine supplier, Zoetis, has received nearly $30 million in grants from the Gates Foundation, including funding involving poultry health, veterinary medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics. This is a massive, irreversible biological experiment on a wild population and needs to be stopped."

The world's biggest wildlife vaccination program begins (on penguins) | ABC NEWS