The increasing threat of bird flu is becoming too big to ignore as it continues to spread to an unprecedented number of species around the world, affecting egg prices as huge swaths of poultry are infected and killed with the virus. This week, police in Pennsylvania even reported 100,000 eggs were stolen from a distributor with an expected value of $40,000.
Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains the risk of bird flu to be low for the general population, H5N1, the virus responsible, continues to expand its range and the number of species it infects, concerning many that a recombination event will occur and it will turn into a full-blown pandemic like COVID-19.
