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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began in 2022. While the ...

So far, Texas farms have seen relatively few cases of bird flu infections, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture reporting 1.9 million chickens and 27 cows infected within the state since 2022.

Bird flu has devastated poultry farms across the country, causing egg prices to soar. Since 2022, the virus has affected more than 150 million birds, including 20.5 million in the last 30 days alone.

"The real crisis is that we're going through the worst bird flu outbreak that we've had in the last 10 years since 2015, ... "We've lost 120 million birds since the beginning of 2022.

The last major outbreak of avian flu in Pennsylvania began at a Lancaster County poultry farm in April 2022. That year, more than 3.5 million birds across the state had to be euthanized.