{"id":11734,"date":"2026-03-25T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:04:41","slug":"has-bird-flu-killed-millions-of-chickens-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/25\/has-bird-flu-killed-millions-of-chickens-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Has bird flu killed millions of chickens in Colorado?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2026\/03\/23\/has-bird-flu-killed-millions-of-chickens-in-colorado\/\">Colorado Sun<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poultry losses due to avian flu in 2024 alone drove up egg prices nationwide by 9%, a University of Arkansas study found. Avian flu outbreaks have led to the deaths of more than 11 million commercial chickens in Colorado since 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal officials usually require farmers to \u201cdepopulate\u201d an entire flock if a single bird contracts the disease to \u201cstamp out\u201d spread. The virus is highly contagious and can rapidly infect other livestock including cattle, pigs and goats. It\u2019s also a threat to cats and dogs and even humans, though human transmissions are rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, the disease hit a commercial egg farming facility in Weld County, causing the farm to kill 1.3 million birds. This was the first outbreak at a commercial facility in Colorado since 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A University of Arkansas study estimated that poultry losses due to avian flu in 2024 alone drove up egg prices nationwide by 9%, creating a $1.41 billion economic burden on consumers resulting from higher egg prices and lower consumption.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2026\/03\/23\/has-bird-flu-killed-millions-of-chickens-in-colorado\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Sun Poultry losses due to avian flu in 2024 alone drove up egg prices nationwide by 9%, a University of Arkansas study found. Avian flu outbreaks have led to the deaths of more than 11 million commercial chickens in Colorado since 2022.&nbsp; Federal officials usually require farmers to \u201cdepopulate\u201d an entire flock if a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}