“Egg farmers are in the fight of our lives and we are losing,” he said.

Though the avian flu, or H5N1, has circulated among American poultry flocks for years, an outbreak starting in 2022 has wreaked havoc on farms, killing over 156 million birds and sending egg prices skyrocketing. The virus then got a foothold among dairy cows last year, and this month, a different strain - tied to severe infections in humans - was found in the cattle.

  • blakenongBanned from community
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    Vaccines for birds…. But not for humans. lol

    Clearly they want you dead

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        Maybe that’s the big reason.

        Too many vaccines (preventative medicine) takes away the big long expensive treatment.

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    4 months ago

    Yall are dumb if you think they havent been vaccinating birds already they are just proposing a new vaccine for the birds. They already are stuffed to the brim with chemical cocktails lol