The bird flu is spreading all throughout the land. (1)
So, where does our head of the HHS stand? (2)
He says, “Let the virus spread through all the birds.” (3)
(But now it has jumped into our cattle herds.)

Develop a vaccine? RFK tells us, “No.”
For resistant chickens are the way to go.
Then search for some humans with those chicken genes?
And then treat with Crisper? Is that what he means? (4)

We know how to make good vaccines and make them cheap.
We don’t need to watch piles of dead chickens heap.
And while we’re doing that, the flu will mutate.
That’s what viruses do to raise the death rate.

One part of our problem is H5N1.
For RFK’s HHS, we are not done.
Because measles is spreading down Texas way.
Should we use MMR? “No,” says RFK.

Let that one spread too, that will make us immune,
Provided you don’t die; that’s RFK’s tune. (5)
The vaccine works better, and far fewer die,
That’s a fact that RFK wants to deny.

Now we’re being challenged by measles and flu.
Should we trust what RFK says he will do?
Opposing new vaccines makes him dangerous.
He’s throwing our citizens under the bus.

(1) A variant of Influenza A, called H5N1 for two different molecules on its surface. A new variant has also emerged in Mississippi, H7N9.
(2) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a noted “anti-vaxxer.”
(3) RFK Jr’s proposal is to let the virus spread through all our chicken flocks and then assume that the rare birds that are not killed are somehow genetically resistant.
(4) So, how would those resistant chickens benefit humans? Just because a chicken is resistant doesn’t make a human resistant.
(5) Letting measles spread through the population will indeed leave behind an immunized population except for those victims it kills. The MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) since the 1970s has proven very effective in preventing measles without the side effect of death.