Bird Flu and the High Price of Eggs

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Since February of last year, the avian flu has led to the deaths of tens of millions of farm-raised birds in the U.S., the deadliest outbreak on record. WSJ’s Patrick Thomas on how the egg industry is getting slammed and what companies are doing to try to save their flocks. Further Reading: - America Is Losing the ‘Epic Battle’ Against Bird Flu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right now, there's a deadly respiratory virus that officials are trying to get under control,
0:11.8	and it's been killing millions.
0:15.0	The virus has been mutating and is spreading asymptomatically.
0:19.9	There have been lockdowns, discussion about vaccines.
0:23.4	The virus is likely to spike in the spring.
0:26.5	The H5N1 avian flu virus.
0:28.9	Avian flu.
0:30.9	It's the largest outbreak of avian flu and the outbreak of avian flu has led to the deaths
0:36.4	of millions of chickens.
0:39.2	The virus itself is all over the place.
0:42.7	So you're like basically in COVID for birds.
0:46.8	That's what you've been reporting on.
0:48.3	More or less, more deadly than COVID.
0:50.7	That's for sure, but it's for birds.
0:54.6	That's our colleague, Patrick Thomas.
0:57.0	He says this current outbreak, the deadliest on record, is slamming the U.S. egg industry
1:03.2	and leading to historically high egg prices.
1:07.2	The big fear is that this just doesn't go away.
1:11.5	Is this virus essentially here to stay?
1:14.6	And if it's here to stay, what does that mean for X?
1:22.3	Welcome to the journal.
1:23.9	Our show about money, business, and power.
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