Bird flu cases are on the rise across the country as wild flocks migrate south for the winter, mingling with domestic poultry farms and backyard birds as they go.
As of Nov. 7, bird flu has been confirmed in 67 flocks across the country in the last 30 days, leading to the deaths of 3.72 million birds across commercial and backyard flocks.
That’s a sharp rise from August, when just 60,000 birds were affected, according to USDA data.
The virus has ebbed and flowed since the USDA first confirmed the arrival of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial flock in February 2022.
However, this time around, we have less insight than before, thanks to staffing cuts at federal labs, rule changes that restrict who government scientists can communicate with and the ongoing federal government shutdown.
“If we don’t acknowledge it, it doesn’t exist”.
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- Women, about me. 😞
Bird flu? Simple, “Stop the testing”. Dead people? Fake news.
Ask Herman Kain about it.Lol
Man that one subreddit… /r/thehermankainaward or some such…
So many folks denying denying denying and then kicking the bucket and not understanding why.
Crazy stuff.
Sounds about the right time to raise egg prices again!
Yeah, but then we’ll have to admit that bird flu is real. See, if we say it’s a hoax and bury it, there’s more eggs and prices go down!
You would make a terrible fascist!
The bird flu is both real and not real. That way they can say there’s nothing to worry about while major egg producers quintuple their prices.
Damn, I hadn’t thought of that! I was just worried about losing the secrecy on birds being surveillance drones.
When it becomes the next pandemic, will we call it the American virus?
No, because they’ll be tied for last place to report their cases
Turkey recognize turkey.
