QUICK HIT: Russia's Secret Spy Unit, Measles Outbreak & Record Prices – This Week's BIGGEST Headlines
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We cover a few of this week's key stories - including the rising prices of eggs due to bird flu, a measles outbreak in Texas, and the emergence of a new spy agency in Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | From a new spy team in Russia to an outbreak in Texas and higher egg prices nationwide, |
| 0:04.7 | here's just a few interesting stories to put on your radar this week. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:16.8 | Well, we're at the end of another big week of news, and we've had a lot of big weeks of news in 2025 and really over the last several years. And we're going to talk about the last several years at the end of this report. But I first want to get to the news stories that really matter. A few stories that I just want to flag for you before you head into your weekend. A story that continues to develop and continues to have a lot of strong feelings attached to it |
| 0:37.8 | are egg prices. And when we're talking about egg prices, we're also talking about the bird flu. |
| 0:43.0 | There is a new headline this week, though, and that is that we have a new record high for the |
| 0:47.5 | price of a dozen eggs. That's $4.95. But what I've asked you what you're paying, many of you |
| 0:52.4 | are paying $7, 8, 9, 10 upwards of and beyond $10 for a dozen eggs. |
| 0:57.2 | And a big reason for this is because of the bird flu. |
| 1:00.1 | When the bird flu infects a flock, it's really contagious. |
| 1:04.4 | It's very deadly to birds. |
| 1:06.4 | And because of that, the government has a process for farmers that incentivizes partnering with the government |
| 1:12.1 | to deal with this outbreak of a flu. And that often involves many times killing the birds to stop |
| 1:18.5 | the spread. And that's a very unique program. You know, bird flu has been found now in 48 different |
| 1:24.0 | mammals. So you can have bird flu in bears, bird flu in sea lions, bird flu in dairy cows. |
| 1:29.7 | But we don't have the same government program for dealing with that because in part, bird flu isn't |
| 1:35.4 | as dangerous in these other animals. |
| 1:37.8 | It can produce a cold or respiratory infection, very similar to a flu. |
| 1:42.5 | And for dairy cows, for example, it does impact milk production. |
| 1:46.0 | It can sicken a cow for several weeks, but that doesn't mean that farmers are going to turn around |
| 1:51.2 | and kill a herd of cows. And so we're in a situation now when it comes to birds, and this is what |
| 1:57.4 | is affecting egg prices, that there's a reward structure that is leading naturally |
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