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Olivia Bowden in Toronto

RFK Jr offers to save Canadian ostriches with suspected bird flu and move them to US

a sign reads 'save our ostriches'
A sign calling for the protection of ostriches at the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, on 17 May 2025. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

Senior officials in the Trump administration have intervened in attempt to save more than 300 ostriches on a farm in British Columbia which the Canadian government had ordered to be killed over fears the flock is infected with avian flu.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, and Mehmet Oz, a physician and former TV host appointed by Trump as the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, have offered to move the birds to Oz’s ranch in Florida – despite the kill order imposed by Canadian health authorities.

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