There Go The Egg Prices Again: Bird Flu Found In Chickens

By Krista Sullivan / April 3, 2024 / Gov & Politics / 1 minute of reading

Well, looks like egg prices will be going up again. Via the Washington Post:

The largest egg producer in the United States said Tuesday that it temporarily ceased operations at one of its Texas facilities after detecting bird flu in chickens — the latest in a steady uptick of cases among U.S. farm animals in recent weeks.

Cal-Maine Foods said it culled about 1.6 million hens and 337,000 pullets (young hens) after some of its chickens at a Parmer County, Texas, facility tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), caused by influenza A viruses that spread widely among wild and domestic birds.

A dairy worker in Texas was being treated for the virus that causes avian influenza, becoming only the second known human case in the United States, state and federal officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the person tested positive for H5N1 bird flu.

Genetic analysis of avian flu virus from infected dairy worker out already!

CDC doing very speedy work

Finding? One change that allows virus to better infect mammals but nothing to raise concern for human-human transmission

This is as expected. And goodhttps://t.co/Gqqz0SyTzs

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) April 3, 2024

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Krista Sullivan

Krista Sullivan, who writes about politics, health, business, and finance for Hermes News, is a lifelong news junkie. She spent her childhood reading the newspaper from front to back every day and developed an interest in politics at a young age. After graduating from college, Krista worked as a reporter for several local newspapers before moving to Hermes News in 2015. She has been covering the economy since then and enjoys writing about new developments in the field.