Pennsylvania 'On High Alert' For Bird Flu As Egg Prices Drop

By Seth Kaplan, CBS Philadelphia

January 28, 2023

This case is in a different commonwealth: Virginia, not Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture is "on high alert" for highly-pathogenic avian influenza, Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding told CBS News Friday, partly because of last week's confirmed case in Virginia. The reason?

"They are in the same flyway – the Atlantic flyway – as Pennsylvania," Redding said.

In other words, in the path of migrating birds, who can spread the disease, which has caused the deaths of nearly 60 million birds – and contributed to high prices for everything from Thanksgiving turkeys last November to eggs today.

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