East Coast Farms Continue to Battle Bird Flu Outbreak

Egg prices have soared across the nation, as Maryland and Delaware battle a worsening avian flu outbreak that has devastated poultry flocks.

On January 21, health officials confirmed Eastern Maryland’s fourth case of avian flu within a week, this time on a broiler farm in Dorchester County. More than 134 million birds have been affected since the outbreak began in January 2022, killing more than 20 million egg-laying hens in the fall of 2024 alone, out of the roughly…