(Tyler Durden) Add eggs to the growing list of food prices rising at grocery stores. The reason is a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) spreading across the US.
Bird Flu
Chinese Man Contracts First Reported Human Case of H10N3 Bird Flu.
(Catherine Salgado) A man in China has contracted what may be the first ever case of a human contracting the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but the Chinese Communist Party is claiming there is a low risk of the strain spreading to humans on a large scale.
Russia Reports World’s First Case of Serial Human Infection From Strain of Bird Flu Virus Named (A)H5N8
(Reuters Wire) MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.