Tag: egg

NEW YORK: If you’ve been to the grocery store lately and nearly dropped your shopping basket at the price of eggs, you’re not alone. Egg prices in the US have skyrocketed, and it’s not just inflation to blame—there’s a much bigger problem. A massive outbreak of avian flu has swept across the country, wiping out […]

Tokyo: Egg prices are soaring in Japan as the current avian flu season sees a record 16 million birds marked for culling, with at least 80 cases reported at poultry firms in 26 of the country’s 47 prefectures. Kyodo News quoted the Japanese agriculture ministry as saying that egg-laying hens make up more than 90 […]