Posted on 03/31/2022 3:32:59 PM PDT by blam
An outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu is quickly spreading across the U.S. The risk to humans is low, but bird flu could wreak havoc in the nation’s poultry industry ahead of Easter.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on Wednesday that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was detected in five new states.
◾A non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Berkshire County, Massachusetts;
◾A non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Johnson County, Wyoming;
◾A commercial poultry flock in Johnston County, North Carolina;
◾A non-commercial, backyard chicken flock (non-poultry) in Franklin County, Ohio;
◾And a backyard chicken flock (poultry) in Kidder County, North Dakota.
According to Bloomberg, USDA data shows the bird flu has been found in 23 states in flocks totaling about 17 million birds up and down Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and across the Midwest.
On Mar. 21, the official figure for culled chickens and turkeys stood around 12 million. Infected flocks have been culled to mitigate spreading, and USDA has implemented an A.I. surveillance program to look for the disease in commercial poultry operations.
Since the HPAI spread is recent, there’s no telling when it will abate. The last outbreak, in 2015, resulted in the culling of 50 million laying hens across 15 states, pushing the prices of chicken and eggs higher.
Ahead of Easter, a dozen of Grade A Eggs are priced around the $2 mark and set to move higher.
Retail prices are at the highest in five years for springtime.
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Chicken breast prices are at new highs, averaging around $3.81 per pound at U.S. supermarkets.
Bloomberg reports top foreign buyers of US poultry could soon balk at purchases.
“Top buyers such as Mexico, China and Cuba could bring in less poultry following the discovery in North Carolina, a major producer of chicken and turkeys,” said Jim Sumner, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council in Tucker, Georgia.
The most significant concern is the continued spread of HPAI at commercial poultry farms as wild flocks migrate across the country. This could continue pressuring poultry prices higher that would feed into record-high food inflation.
China?
And this might help address the obesity problem in USA.
I have traveled to 40+ countries, and never saw so many obese people in other countries. Mainly because food is expensive compared to wages in almost all other countries.
No. We aren’t locking down again.
The rabid dwarf will have us locked in our houses in no time.
You know darn good and well, that was the first thing those rat 🐀 bastards thought of.
The American citizen will do what he is told to do by his “betters”......even if it takes five boosters.
You’ve got chickens under threat of lockdown?
Chicken Run!
Mid-Term Variant
backyard chicken flock (non-poultry)
backyard chicken flock (poultry)
What makes one poultry and the other non-poultry when they are both flocks of chickens in the backyard?
No doubt the damnocrats will try to lock us down heading in to the midterms.
I happen to work at an extremely woke company. They will try to lock us down as soon as Fauci says to
I may have to resign.
It wouldn’t surprise me.
This is a problem (so far) for birds, just like every other HPAI outbreak in the world since at least the 1990s.
Occasionally, there are one-off human cases. H5N1 has infected thousands of people since 1997, but a contact case can’t re-transmit to a third person so no epidemics.
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