bird flu
Eggs Are Now More Expensive Than Chicken
In case you've been sleeping through the latest avian flu outbreak, you might not have noticed that eggs have nearly doubled in price in recent months. And you know what that means? Eggs are officially more expensive than chicken meat.
The Bird Flu Epidemic Has China Scrambling for Brazil's Chicken Feet
The devastating avian flu outbreak in the US has left China—the world's biggest market for chicken feet—seeking alternative sources for their foot fetish.
Start Hoarding for Omelets, Because Egg Rations Are Really Happening
In the wake of an avian flu pandemic that’s been devastating Midwestern farms, eggs are in increasingly short supply. The rationing has begun.
Farmers in the Midwest Are Incinerating Millions of Chickens
A vicious outbreak of avian flu has forced poultry producers to kill nearly 40 million chickens and turkeys since December.
Bird Flu Is Forcing Egg Prices to Skyrocket
Remember those 5 million sad Iowa chickens, sentenced to death to stave off an avian flu epidemic? Well, industry analysts are now reporting supermarket egg prices up 58 percent from just one month ago.
Millions of Chickens Have Bird Flu and Nobody Knows How It's Spreading
The governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa have all declared states of emergency in response to the outbreaks.
Hey Guys, We Should Chill Out on Eating Chicken
Thanks to record-breaking beef and pork prices, Americans are eating more chicken than ever—which sucks because the factory farms where our chickens are raised are creating the perfect environment for quite possibly the next pandemic: avian flu.
More Bird Flu Research Goes Public, Has Bad News About Global Pandemic Possibilities
It was just about three years ago that H1N1 made its way onto the 24 hour news cycle, planting itself there like its own kind of virus and fed by good ol' fashioned fear. You might have chuckled swine flu off as more media overhype -- or just looked at...
Much Ado About Bird Flu
Let's give bird flu research a rest for two months. This is the message released yesterday in "a short letter":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/481443a.html by a group of scientists led by Ron Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, two...
A Super-Dangerous Strain of Bird Flu is Spreading to a Research Lab Near You
Fears over a massive bird flu pandemic are nothing new. Since the first human infection in 1997, hundreds of people across the world, but mainly in Southeast Asia, have been infected. Of those hundreds, about 60-percent died. Fortunately, human-to...