Egg business scrambled amid devastating bird flu

Mark Matassa Jul 5, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Egg business scrambled amid devastating bird flu</h1>
                <h2><p>The outbreak might have received more attention if humans were more directly threatened, but for egg farmers and associated businesses the effect is huge. “Deadly avian flu viruses have affected more than 33 million turkeys, chickens and ducks in more than a dozen states since December,” reports The New York</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mmatassa-mac-com/">Mark Matassa</a></p> 
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            <p>The outbreak might have received more attention if humans were more directly threatened, but for egg farmers and associated businesses the effect is huge. “Deadly avian flu viruses have affected more than 33 million turkeys, chickens and ducks in more than a dozen states since December,” reports <em>The New York Times</em>.<em> </em>In Iowa, the nation’s leading egg producer, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/business/bird-flu-outbreak-chicken-farmers.html?hpw=&rref=business&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">more than 40 percent of egg-laying hens </a>are dead or dying, the <em>Times</em> says. One immediate problem: what to do with all these dead birds?</p>
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The outbreak might have received more attention if humans were more directly threatened, but for egg farmers and associated businesses the effect is huge. “Deadly avian flu viruses have affected more than 33 million turkeys, chickens and ducks in more than a dozen states since December,” reports The New York Times. In Iowa, the nation’s leading egg producer, more than 40 percent of egg-laying hens are dead or dying, the Times says. One immediate problem: what to do with all these dead birds?

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