Agriculture officials in the Biden administration are testing four vaccines in hopes of stanching the latest outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian influenza that has devastated U.S. poultry farms and driven up egg prices.
Two of the vaccines being tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were developed by that agency. The others, from animal drugmaker Zoetis and Merck Animal Health, were developed during the last large-scale outbreak in 2015 and not used, a USDA spokesman said.
The virus has also contributed to sky-high egg prices. But while “eggflation” has calmed temporarily, bird flu has not flown the coop. “The virus really spread from the Atlantic Coast westward across the U.S. and is now being detected in all 50 states, including Alaska,” Nichola Hill, a professor in the biology department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, said in a briefing last week. “So, we’ve seen continuous circulation in North America since that time, and it’s raised the question of whether this virus is now endemic.
There have been no documented cases of human-to-human transmission, and people known to have been sickened worked closely with poultry. But it poses dangers for pets and means more uncertainty ahead for the cost of eggs.
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