By james art 
Las Vegas, Nev. (FOX5) – Some farms across the country are intensifying softening efforts to try to protect bird flu from distribution.
As the H5N1 was first discovered in poultry in 2022, the outbreaks led to the loss of nearly 150 million birds across the country, according to the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases.
“Part of the anxiety is that the highly pathogenic flu is very easily transmitted by wild bird populations in domestic poultry,” said Tracy Shane, a livestock specialist with UNR.
The price of the eggs and ultimately the price of the chicken is expected to increase due to the shortage. Shane says we are likely to see a long -lasting effect on egg prices until later this year. This is because it usually takes about six months to allow the chicken to start laying eggs.
“So we will have a little market back in anticipation of farms to be able to increase the capacity to what they were in the past,” she said.
There are no commercial producers in Nevada, but bird flu has been found in three herds of milk cattle and some birds around the country.
The risk to health for people is low. 67 people infected bird flu in 2024, which led to one death and had no distribution of a person, according to CDC.
“Everyone in agriculture is trying to increase their biological security measures and really do anything they can do to try to reduce our human causal factors for moving viruses around, cleaning boots, washing hands “, Schene added.
To help deal with the shortage, the Nevada Ministry of Agriculture works with the state MPs to allow the sale of without cells without cells. The state prohibited the sale of eggs from chicken cells in 2021
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