The third in a series of scary worldwide outbreaks over the past year, the bird flu 2015 has scared millions once again, as United States citizens grow concerned over the large wave of infected eggs and chickens in the disease all over the country.
The Ebola outbreak last year in Africa had the world in a twist with major concerns, as there were growing reports of patients spreading all over the world; later, a Blue Bell Creameries scandal was the first in a series of issues involving listeria contamination - now, as summer approaches, the bird flu 2015 takes the place of the terrifying outbreak of the season.
According to CNBC, the bid flu 2015 outbreak has created a nationwide low in egg supply, which is now forcing some of the biggest fast food chains in the country to cut down menu items while still maintaining a certain sense of normality.
Due to this bid flu 2015 outbreak, Whataburger is cutting their breakfast schedule in a major way: due to the egg shortage (and overpricing) during the crisis, the fast food chain is cutting their usual 11 pm to 11 am breakfast slot to 5 to 9 am during the week and 5 to 11 am on weekends.
In the meantime, NPR recently spoke to Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture, about the bird flu 2015 outbreak (which is the largest of its kind in the country's history), and Vilsack said that, in fact, this outbreak poses no real threat to consumers as the H5 bird flu hasn't been proven to even be detectable in humans.
However, after having spent a week meeting with farmers, producer groups and even government officials in the affected states, Vilsack has said that this outbreak is devastating to producers.
In the meantime, USA Today reports that the bid flu 2015 outbreak has posed some serious questions about biosecurity in the most affected states (in the Midwest), as the economic impact in Minnesota and Iowa alone is close to $1 billion.
