Some notable states aren’t testing for the virus in their livestock even as the virus spreads and impacts the health of animals and humans - and continues to cause price spikes at the grocery store.
Current bird flu vaccines do not meet the criteria for an ideal vaccine candidate for poultry, but agriculture officials said last year that it is “prudent to again pursue a stockpile that matches current outbreak strains.”.
Deploying a vaccine for dairy cattle that is matched to the current strain is believed to be more feasible and likely to be successful in stopping infections.
The virus has infected millions of the nation’s poultry and hundreds of dairy herds.
Rising egg prices are tied to bird flu because so many egg-producing birds exposed to H5N1 have had to be slaughtered.
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