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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced emergency funding in February to combat the virus and reduce egg prices with a $1 billion "comprehensive strategy to curb" bird flu.

February 26, 2025 – Days after she visited a poultry operation run by Cal-Maine, the country’s largest egg producer, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed a new, five-pronged plan for the ...

Health Bird flu vaccine gets ‘conditional license’ from USDA, company announces The vaccine is designed to protect chickens from the H5N2 subtype of avian influenza ...

The USDA unveils a $1 billion plan to combat bird flu amid rising egg prices. The initiative includes biosecurity measures, farmer support, egg imports, and research into potential vaccines.

Research on highly pathogenic strains of bird flu conducted by the Department of Agriculture in affiliation with Chinese Communist Party scientific researchers is drawing renewed scrutiny from ...

The USDA has launched a $1 billion strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza, protect the U.S. poultry industry and lower egg prices. Vaccines, enhanced biosecurity measures and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, as well as novel vaccines and therapeutics to treat the bird flu ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday it plans to spend up to $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funds to try to reduce the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, as well as novel vaccines and therapeutics to treat the bird flu, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, as well as novel vaccines and therapeutics to treat the bird flu, ...