Vice President Egss Unlimited Brian Moscogiuri explains why egg prices will continue to grow while the bird flu epidemic slows down production.
Federal government A approved health company Zoetis animal -conditional vaccine license for bird flu to use in chickens because bird flu epidemics continue to devastate a flock around the country, which affects the supply of eggs in the country.
The Center for Veterinary Biology, the Department of Agriculture (CVB) issued a conditional license for the companical vaccine against the H5N2 Birds Flu on the basis of “demonstration of safety, cleanliness and reasonable expectations of efficiency based on serological data.”
The H5N2 is a different subspecies from the H5N1 subtype, which causes poultry epidemics and American dairy cows, with several recent human cases in US milk and poultry workers, according to centers for the control and prevention of illness (CDC). However, the news continues to give farmers hope.
More than 150 million birds – including those in the yard and commercial flocks in the United States – the virus has been affected since February 2022, according to the USDA service for the inspection of animals and plants (Aphis).
Including in the yard and commercial flocks.
When a new bird’s altitude strain was identified at the beginning of 2022, Mahesh Kumar, Senior Vice President Global Biologic Research and Development in Zoetis, said that the company scientists “immediately started the work” to update their previous bird flu vaccine.
These licenses are issued when there is “an emergency, a limited market, a local situation or other special circumstance,” Zoetis states. Although they are issued for the final period, they can be renewed by CVB.
Eggs are seen to empty the shelves in some markets due to the egg crisis in Virginia on February 12, 2025. (Celal Gunes / Anadolo via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Egg prices are not reduced soon, experts say
This is celebrated for the fourth year that the virus has crippled farmers, and the epidemics have continued to appear in early 2025. Once the virus is discovered, the farms are headed to kill their flocks to use the disease, which significantly impairs the supply and increases egg costs In the American food system.
The USA said that the disease was very contagious, with one bird capable of spreading it “from a herd in a flock within a few days.” Depopulation or euthanization of affected animals “is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of the disease and protecting the health of animals as a whole,” the Agency said.
The USA said that the disease was very contagious, with one bird capable of spreading it “from a herd in a flock within a few days.” (Photographer: Mary Kang / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Chad Gregory, Executive Director of United Producers EGG, a cooperative owned by a farmer who represents most of American egg producers, said that “was encouraged by the development of a high -path of birds vaccines”, including a recent announcement of Zoetis for license to use conditions and early successes with vaccines against bird flu in other countries.
Still, he noted that there was still a lot of work left, such as getting the Government to approve the use of a vaccine, as well as addressing the effects of the store before the vaccine can be arranged in the US
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Bernt Nelson, an economist of the US Federation for Agricultural Economy, told Fox Business that the group supports research to develop a safe and effective vaccine for bird flu, but until it happens, which contain the spread of viruses will remain a “priority”.
“American farmers are dedicated to securing safe and abundant food supply, and the threat of HPAI take seriously,” Nelson said, adding that “strict biological security measures on the farm and depopulation of infected birds are evidence of extreme lengths that farmers go to protect the health of national flocks and the American public. “
