As the country continues to battle another bird flu strain that has infected humans and caused egg prices to reach record highs, the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017 was reported in the United States.Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, has ravaged flocks all over the world, disrupting supply and fueling higher food prices. Governments are concerned about the possibility of a new pandemic as a result of its spread to mammals, including dairy cows in the United States.H5N1 is the strain that has caused the most damage to poultry in recent years and resulted in one US death.The US has reported its first H7N9 bird flu outbreak on a poultry farm since 2017, amid ongoing human-human bird flu issues and record-high egg prices.Bird flu has disrupted global supply, fueled by higher food prices, and raised concerns about a potential new pandemic due to its spread to mammals, including dairy cows in the US.The strain that has caused most damage to poultry in recent years and the death of one person in the US is the H5N1
The World Health Organization reported that since its first detection in 2013 in China, the H7N9 bird flu virus has killed 616 people, or 39%, of the 1,568 people worldwide who have been infected.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neither type of the bird flu virus appears to be easily transmissible between people. On March 13, the latest H7N9 outbreak in the United States, which was found on a farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, with 47,654 commercial broiler breeder chickens, was confirmed.According to a report published on Monday by the World Animal Health Organization, which cited authorities in the United States, Mississippi's departments of agriculture and health did not immediately respond to requests for comment.According to Reuters, federal agencies cancelled congressional briefings and meetings with state animal health officials in the early weeks of the Trump administration, disrupting the US response to bird flu.
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