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Won't this put the price of eggs way, way in the opposite direction to what Trump wants them to go?

It risks the entire local US chicken / egg production industry. They'd have to re-onshore it.

The culled birds definitely arent producing. The proposal here is to let sick birds recover from their flu instead of being killed. True, you can effectively stop the spread of the flu if all the animals are dead, but the flu has a high survivability rate, and so once birds recover from their flu, they'll still be laying eggs (instead of being dead). That seems to be the proposed approach. It matches what we did for covid (we didnt cull the infected to stop the spread--it might have worked though).

From the article it doesn't sound like H5N1 really has a "high survivability rate":

>> What's more, the mortality rate of H5N1 is extremely high among common poultry, reaching 100% in domestic chickens.

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