A Hy-Vee grocery store in Columbia, Missouri, is sharing information with shoppers about the impacts of recent bird flu cases on the egg supply. Egg prices across the country have soared in recent weeks because of losses caused by the virus. Skyler Rossi/Harvest Public Media
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has infected more than 130 million birds in the U.S. since it first emerged in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Skyler Rossi/Harvest Public Media
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
You can blame bird flu for high egg prices at the grocery store.
A dozen large, Grade A eggs cost an average of $4.15 in the U.S. last month—a nearly 37% increase from the year before—according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a much larger jump than the …
