Bird Flu Death Toll: Over 12 Million Chickens And Turkeys

Death Toll Rises To Over 12 Million Chickens And Turkeys In 2nd Month Of America's Horrific Bird Flu Pandemic

 Michael Snyder

Everyone needs to start paying attention to this crisis, because America’s rapidly growing bird flu pandemic is going to deeply affect all of us at the grocery store.  This pandemic began on February 8th when a confirmed case of HPAI was confirmed in a domestic flock, and on March 9th I published an article that discussed the fact that nearly 2.8 million birds (mostly chickens and turkeys) had already died.  If the pandemic had fizzled out after that first month, it wouldn’t have ultimately been a major deal.  But instead, this pandemic has escalated dramatically here in the second month.  If cases continue to spread like wildfire, we will soon be facing a nightmare of absolutely epic proportions.

On Friday, I was stunned to learn that an outbreak of bird flu at an egg-laying farm in Iowa is going to result in the culling of over 5 million chickens…

The confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens, state officials said Friday.

It’s the second confirmed case of avian influenza in Buena Vista County, about 160 miles (257 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines, but the latest outbreak is at an operation with 5.3 million chickens. The earlier case was at a farm with about 50,000 turkeys.

Just think about that.

Five millions chickens suddenly gone.

What do you think that is going to do to the price of eggs?

This pandemic originally erupted in states on the east coast, but now it is really raging in the middle of the nation.

For example, HPAI just spread to two more counties in Kansas…

State officials say a strain of bird flu has shown up in two more Kansas counties.

The Kansas Dept. of Agriculture announced Friday that samples show cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in two non-commercial backyard mixed-species flocks (poultry), one in Dickinson Co. and the other in rural Sedgwick Co.

And HPAI has just been confirmed at more facilities in South Dakota…

Officials in South Dakota said on Saturday that 85,000 birds in two state facilities were euthanized amid the state’s first avian flu outbreak since 2015.

The outbreaks took place on two farms in Charles Minx county, located in the southeastern part of the state, where the flu was first detected in turkeys, according to South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB). Other birds in close contact with the turkeys were euthanized as well.

Make sure that you are sitting down for what I am going to share with you next.

After the first month, the death toll from this pandemic was sitting at approximately 2.8 million.

According to Fox Business, the total death toll here in the second month of the pandemic has now reached nearly 12.6 million…

The latest case confirmed by the state Department of Agriculture means nearly 12.6 million chicken and turkeys in at least eight states have been killed or will be destroyed soon.

The second month of this pandemic began on March 8th, and so that means that the death toll has risen by close to 10 million in less than two weeks.

Let that sink in for a moment.

If this pandemic continues to rise on such a trajectory, what is our food supply going to look like a few months down the road?

According to Zero Hedge, the price of wholesale eggs reached $1.60 on Wednesday…

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