Bird Flu is infiltrating farms, refrigerators and wallets all over the world.
It's not uncommon to see eggs hit $7 a dozen in some areas. Prices are double or even triple what they were one year ago.
"People rely on eggs in their home use for a quick, easy, cheap protein, and now the numbers are crazy." Claimed Salena Zito.
Zito, a reporter with the Washington Examiner, tells the Big K Morning show, bird flu is to blame and it's even a bigger burden on poultry farmers.
"They have to go through all these bio-measure," explained Zito. "They dress up in these suits, they go through their farms, and they test their poultry chicken every morning. They have to wipe their walls in every time they go in, every time they go out, and it's isolating them as well."
So far, the USDA estimates nearly 58 million birds across 47 states have been affected by the outbreak, with over 4 million birds in Pennsylvania have been affected as of November.
"And if your farm is within 10 km or 13 mi of an affected poultry farm, your shut down [and] you can't do anything." Says Zito
Though egg prices are up more than other foods, egg supply remains steady.
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