Feb 20, 2025
Only now, in its wisdom, the Trump Administration’s USDA has conditionally authorized veterinary product manufacturer Zoetis to market and distribute a vaccine to protect the poultry. Zoetis is the former “animal health” division of Pfizer, but was spun out (2013). The main shareholders now include Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, and State Farm.
This is all tracking pretty much precisely as Peter Hotez had darkly predicted last December, despite the fact that this variant of “Bird Flu” has been circulating in the continental USA since 2022, and other H5N1 variants have been circulating in domestic and wild birds for as long as there has been tracking of Bird Flu – many decades.
As if that is not enough…