The latest data from the CDC and USDA show the continued devastating effects of bird flu outbreaks across the United States – with Iowa, the nation's leading egg producer, suffering substantial losses.
In the run up to the November elections, then-Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance famously blamed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris for spiking the price of eggs. “Let’s talk about eggs.
Sixty people were hospitalized and 10 are known to have died last year in the largest listeria outbreak since 2011.
U.S. poultry producers should ramp up testing and monitoring of turkeys for bird flu before they are slaughtered to ensure the virus stays out of the food supply, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
The CDC advises testing hospitalized flu patients for bird flu within 24 hours to prevent delays in identifying human infections. While the public risk remains low, nearly 70 Americans have contracted bird flu.
A report from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service found sanitary noncompliance contributed to a multistate listeria outbreak last year.
Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial poultry plant in the state.
A group that advocates for animal rights says the US Government needs to do more to stop the spread of bird flu or H5N1. More than 100 million birds have been affected according to the CDC and over 1 million birds have been euthanized in the United States due to bird flu.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that 15 more states have enrolled in a national H5N1 milk testing program, raising the number to 28 states, which represents roughly 65% of the nation’s milk production,
Established in 1908, the Aquebogue site is the last commercial duck farm on Long Island, once world-renowned for its ducks.
Every morning, the staff at Pine Ridge Acres stocks the farm store with 20 dozen eggs. They're gone within two hours. The eggs — fresh from the Cumberland farm's 300 hens and priced at $6 per dozen — used to last the entire day.