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Committee presses USDA on avian flu response, screw‑worm threat as Rollins pledges vaccine and sterile‑fly action
Summary
Secretary Rollins told the House Agriculture Committee the USDA is taking a multipronged approach to high‑path avian influenza and the emerging New World screw‑worm threat, including indemnity, biosecurity assessments, vaccine development funding and expanded sterile‑fly efforts.
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins told the House Agriculture Committee that the department is pursuing a ‘‘multi‑pronged’’ animal health strategy to address high‑path avian influenza (HPAI) and the New World screw‑worm, and that the agency had already carried out hundreds of farm biosecurity assessments and moved indemnity and repopulation funding for affected egg producers.
Rollins said USDA has performed roughly 830 biosecurity assessments on farms, advanced indemnity payments to repopulate barns, and has committed $100 million to vaccine development and related animal health countermeasures. She told the committee that those funds are part of a broader $1 billion plan for farm biosecurity and…
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