{"id":2367,"date":"2023-01-31T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:13:43","slug":"as-egg-prices-soar-the-deadliest-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/31\/as-egg-prices-soar-the-deadliest-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-drags-on\/","title":{"rendered":"As egg prices soar, the deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/01\/as-egg-prices-soar-the-bloodiest-bird-flu-outbreak-in-us-history-drags-on\/\">ARS Technica<\/a>)  The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the US is now the longest and deadliest on record. More than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/avian-flu-summary.htm\">57 million birds<\/a>\u00a0have been killed by the virus or culled since a year ago, and the deadly disruption has helped propel skyrocketing egg prices and a spike in egg smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) was first detected in US birds in January 2022, the price of a carton of a dozen eggs has shot up from an average of about $1.79 in December 2021 to $4.25 in December 2022, a 137 percent increase, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/pdq\/SurveyOutputServlet\">data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Although inflation and supply chain issues partly explain the rise, eggs saw the largest percentage increase of any specific food, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.t02.htm\">the consumer price index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"yjViLQdCg  M AEC zJ Fa\">yjViLQdCg  M AEC zJ Fa<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ARS Technica) The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the US is now the longest and deadliest on record. More than\u00a057 million birds\u00a0have been killed by the virus or culled since a year ago, and the deadly disruption has helped propel skyrocketing egg prices and a spike in egg smuggling. Since highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-18.12.47.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}