Newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is expected to soon announce a new strategy to combat the bird flu outbreak, though it’s unclear if vaccinations will play a role, NBC News reported Thursday.

The Department of Agriculture last week granted a conditional license to Zoetis, a New Jersey-based vaccine manufacturer, for its avian influenza vaccine H5N2 subtype for use in chickens. However, the agency stopped short of saying it approved the vaccine for commercial use.

“This is simply a normal step in the research and development phase, not in the implementation of a vaccine strategy,” the USDA spokesperson told NBC News.

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