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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 12 (ANI): The World Health Organisation has confirmed the human case of <keyword id="3653784" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bird-flu-in-india" source="Orion">bird flu in India</keyword>, after the <keyword id="15897682" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="H9N2-virus" source="Orion">H9N2 virus</keyword> was detected in a four-year child in West Bengal. Overall, this is the second <keyword id="21166335" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="human-infection" source="keywords">human infection</keyword> of <keyword id="2663051" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Avian-Influenza-A" source="Orion">avian influenza A</keyword> (H9N2) notified to WHO from India, with the first being done in 2019. The child has recovered and was discharged from the hospital. WHO received a notification from the International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) for India, regarding a human case of avian influenza A(H9N2) virus infection in West Bengal, the health body said in a press release. "The patient is a 4-year-old child residing in West Bengal state. The case, previously diagnosed with hyperreactive airway disease, initially presented to the paediatrician with fever and abdominal pain on 26 January 2024. He developed seizures on January 29 after which he was brought to the same paediatrician. The patient was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of a local hospital due to the persistence of severe respiratory distress, recurrent high-grade fever and abdominal cramps. The patient tested positive for influenza B and adenovirus. He was discharged from the hospital on February 28 but with a recurrence of severe respiratory distress, he was referred to another government hospital and was admitted to the pediatric ICU and intubated on March 3. His nasopharyngeal swab was sent to the Kolkata Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory and tested positive for influenza A (not sub-typed) and rhinovirus. On April 26, the sample was sub-typed as influenza A(H9N2) through a real-time polymerase chain reaction. The patient was discharged from the hospital with oxygen support on May 1. WHO said that the infected patient had exposure to poultry at home and in the surroundings. It, however, also affirmed there were no known persons reporting symptoms of respiratory illness in the family, the neighbourhood, or among healthcare workers at health facilities attended by the case at the time of reporting. The health body further warned that sporadic human cases could occur in the future as this virus is "one of the most prevalent avian influenza viruses circulating in poultry in different regions." Animal influenza viruses normally circulate in animals but can also infect humans. Infections in humans have primarily been acquired through direct contact with infected animals or through indirect contact with contaminated environments. Depending on the original host, influenza A viruses can be classified as avian influenza, swine influenza, or other types of animal influenza viruses, the WHO stated in the release. The health body further said that it is providing continued support to the government of India through technical advice, updates on risk assessment and updating contingency plans- both in the human and animal sectors in line with the global guidance.

WHO confirms human case of bird flu in India! H9N2 virus detected in a four-year child in West Bengal

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-avian-influenza-outbreak-us-h5n1-wiping-out-everything-2023-4">H5N1 avian influenza, also called bird flu</a>, is spreading through US chickens and now cattle.</li><li>The FDA discovered genetic material from the virus in grocery store milk.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/got-milk-gen-z-problem-realistically-unhealthy-2023-4">Milk</a> might contain remnants of the <keyword id="21348322" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="H5N1" source="keywords">H5N1</keyword> <keyword id="20396857" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="bird-flu" source="keywords">bird flu</keyword> virus that's raging through US chickens and cattle. The Food and Drug Administration <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai">announced</a> Tuesday that it had discovered virus particles in "some of the samples collected" throughout the milk supply chain, from the cow to the shelf. The agency did not indicate how many samples tested positive or from where, but said the detections "do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers." However, the discovery suggests the virus has spread further through the <keyword id="21438910" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="US-cattle-population" source="Orion">US cattle population</keyword> than officials previously realized. Scientists are growing more concerned that this <keyword id="109029" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="avian-influenza" source="Orion">avian influenza</keyword> outbreak could make the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-cattle-outbreak-repeat-mistakes-former-surgeon-general-warning-2024-4">jump into human-to-human transmission</a>. So far, though, many public health experts don't think this rings alarm bells about the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-eggs-meat-milk-dairy-safety-during-outbreak-2024-4">safety of the food supply</a>. "I had eggs yesterday and I had milk last night, and I'll have a steak if someone gives me a steak," Dr. Jerome Adams, who was the surgeon general of the Trump administration and is now the director of health equity at Purdue University, told Business Insider on Wednesday. "I still believe that the way we process and cook foods is going to disable most bacteria and viruses, including this one," he said. <h2>Pasteurization should kill H5N1 in milk</h2> <div type="image" title="row of cows sticking their heads through metal bars to eat hay feed" height="1500" width="2250" msid="109605298" hostid="261"></div>The FDA oversees the nation's milk supply, and the US Department of Agriculture oversees dairy cows. Both say they believe the commercial milk supply is safe, due to the pasteurization process and the practice of disposing of milk from sick cows. Pasteurization heats milk at a high temperature for a brief period of time to kill microbes living inside it. Some states allow the sale of unpasteurized, aka "raw," milk or cheese, which the CDC recommends avoiding. Public-health experts told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04/23/bird-flu-virus-milk/">The Washington Post</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/health/bird-flu-milk.html">The New York Times</a> on Tuesday that they, too, believe <keyword id="1476604" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="pasteurized-milk" source="Orion">pasteurized milk</keyword> to be safe, but that the federal government should still conduct tests to confirm that. The FDA says such tests are ongoing. <div type="image" title="cow udder rigged with machine and tubes for milking" height="1500" width="2250" msid="109605301" hostid="261"></div>"It's taking them too long to be able to reassure the public about the safety of milk," Adams said. Some studies have shown that pasteurization deactivates H5N1 in eggs, the FDA says, and that happens at a lower temperature than milk pasteurization. "To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe. Results from multiple studies will be made available in the next few days to weeks," the FDA statement said. <h2>To be extra safe, cook meat and eggs all the way</h2>There's probably no "significantly increased risk," Dr. Samuel Alcaine, an associate professor of food science at Cornell University, told Business Insider on April 6, but you can <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-eggs-meat-milk-dairy-safety-during-outbreak-2024-4">be extra safe by fully cooking your meat and eggs</a> (until the yolk is firm). <div type="image" title="Person using spatula to cook steak in frying pan" height="1808" width="3000" msid="109605302" hostid="261"></div>Adams says he doesn't normally eat rare steak or runny eggs anyway. "That has nothing to do with H5N1. That's just me being someone who's been in public health and food safety for a long time," he said. His wife does eat runny eggs and rare steak, though, he added, "and I'm not telling her to change what she does." He added that people should still follow basic food-safety practices: Wash your hands after handling raw meat or eggs, and before handling the food you'll eat. Prevent cross-contamination from raw meats or eggs and the utensils that have touched them. Always cook poultry to an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees Fahrenheit. <h2>The biggest bird flu risk for humans isn't food</h2>The people who are really at risk for bird flu are those who work closely with chickens, cattle, or other livestock. The CDC <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/hpai/hpai-interim-recommendations.html">says</a> those workers should avoid unprotected, direct contact with sick animals, raw milk, animals' drinking water, animal carcasses, feces, litter, or other surfaces that could be contaminated with animals' saliva, blood, or other excretions. Workers should be provided with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.htm">personal protective equipment</a> for those situations and trained to use it properly, the agency says. "It's spreading rapidly in these animals, and every time it spreads, it has a chance to mutate," Adams said.

Bird flu particles were found in pasteurized milk. A former surgeon general says he isn't changing what he eats.

<keyword id="6356806" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="moscow">Moscow</keyword>, <keyword id="6358826" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Russia">Russia</keyword> has confirmed the first case of human infection with the <keyword id="109029" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="avian-influenza">avian influenza</keyword> A(H5N8) virus in the world, a Russian sanitary official announced on Saturday. Scientists have isolated the genetic material of this <keyword id="95867" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bird-flu">bird flu</keyword> virus in seven workers of a poultry farm in south Russia, where an outbreak among fowls was reported in December, said Anna Popova, head of the country's consumer rights and human well-being watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, say reporters. All the necessary measures were taken immediately to protect humans and animals, and the infection did not spread further, she told a briefing. All of the seven people who were infected are now feeling well, with only mild clinical symptoms, Popova said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/pewdiepies-lyrics-targeting-cocomelon-and-jk-rowling-that-may-have-gotten-youtube-angry-enough-to-pull-the-video-down/articleshow/81102941.cms">PewDiePie's lyrics targeting CocoMelon and JK Rowling may have gotten YouTube angry enough to pull the video down</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/flipkart-gets-leaner-with-a-300-million-jabong-write-off-as-ceo-kalyan-krishnamurthy-lists-out-the-priorities-for-2021/articleshow/81105083.cms">Flipkart gets leaner with a $300 million Jabong write-off as CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy lists out the priorities for 2021</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/happiest-minds-is-leveraging-its-partnerships-with-big-players-like-google-microsoft-aws-salesforce/articleshow/81105035.cms">Happiest Minds is a smaller company that does the same thing as MindTree and L&amp;T Infotech — but clearly it is doing it a lot better</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-may-require-twitter-facebook-and-others-to-remove-unlawful-content-within-36-hours/articleshow/81104740.cms">India may require Twitter, Facebook and others to remove unlawful content within 36 hours</a>

World's first case of human infection with bird flu in Russia

The <keyword id="126959" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="World-Trade-Organization">World Trade Organization</keyword> (<keyword id="6357761" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="wto">WTO</keyword>) has overturned the ban imposed by India on importing poultry from the US. The WTO ruled that India’s stand was “inconsistent with international norms.” 
 
India now has 60 days to appeal against the WTO's dispute settlement panel decision. An Indian official said, "The decision to move to the Appellate Body will be taken after consulting the Animal Husbandry Department." 
 In 2007, India had banned imports of various agricultural products from the US as in order to prevent outbreak of <keyword id="109029" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="avian-influenza">Avian Influenza</keyword> in the country. 
 "India's Avian Influenza (AI) measures are inconsistent with (several articles)....of the <keyword id="6548444" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="SPS">SPS</keyword> (sanitary and phyto-sanitary) Agreement because they are not based on the relevant international standard," the ruling said. 
 
“India’s measures are arbitrarily and unjustifiably discriminate between Members where identical or similar conditions prevail and are applied in a manner which constitutes a disguised restriction on international trade," it added. It also said that the measures were "significantly more trade-restrictive."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The bird flu, or avian influenza, is increasingly worrying public-health experts.</li><li>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-avian-influenza-outbreak-us-h5n1-wiping-out-everything-2023-4">H5N1 bird flu virus</a> is changing, creeping closer to humans, and getting more opportunities to adapt.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-virus-h5n1-new-human-case-michigan-respiratory-symptoms-2024-6">Bird flu</a> is flying wild, and it has many infectious disease experts more worried now than ever.The H5N1 avian influenza virus has killed tens of millions of birds across the planet and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals. For animals, it's a pandemic.Still, the CDC says the risk to humans is low. Most people seem to have very little chance, if any, of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-eggs-meat-milk-dairy-safety-during-outbreak-2024-4">catching H5N1 avian influenza</a> right now.Only three people in the US have tested positive for the virus since its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-cattle-outbreak-repeat-mistakes-former-surgeon-general-warning-2024-4">surprising break into the cattle population</a>, and they all had direct contact with infected cows.<div type="image" title="farmer man in overalls blue and white button shirt and camo cap reaches over a wooden fence to scratch a cow wearing a bow inside an indoors stall full of hay" height="1500" width="2250" msid="110949087" hostid="261" sizebytes="321112"></div>But infectious disease experts are increasingly concerned that the H5N1 virus could <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/3-viruses-scientists-are-watching-for-the-next-pandemic-2022-4">make a sustained jump into humans</a> and start spreading among us. That's not inevitable, but several recent developments suggest it's a growing threat."There's a lot going on," Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine and associate chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told Business Insider. "I'm becoming more worried."You shouldn't panic, but you should probably know what's going on. This virus is a leading candidate for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-says-world-needs-billion-year-prevent-next-pandemic-2022-6">the next pandemic</a>, and four developments in the past month have experts worried.Here's what you need to know.<h2 id="a6efdbe9-4727-4b3a-b934-ceccc3f63ba8">Bird flu hospitalized a child in Australia</h2>On Friday the World Health Organization announced that a 2-year-old had become Australia's first human case of H5N1 in March.After returning from travel to Kolkata, India, the child's symptoms — loss of appetite, fever, coughing, vomiting, and irritability, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON519">according</a> to WHO — put them in the hospital for two and a half weeks, including admission to the intensive care unit.As human cases crop up in different parts of the world, epidemiologists like Christopher Dye become more concerned."There's such a vast amount of virus at the moment. And clearly it is changing, and it's doing new and unexpected things," Dye, a professor and senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, told BI.<div type="image" title="researcher in white lab coat blue medical gloves and protective goggles works with an ice bucket containing small samples of milk in a lab" height="1500" width="2250" msid="110949085" hostid="261" sizebytes="166070"></div>He recently co-authored a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1199.full">paper</a>, published in the medical journal BMJ, arguing that the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-real-is-the-last-of-us-science-behind-fungus-pandemic-2023-1">risk of a major human outbreak</a> is "large, plausible, and imminent.""<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/influenza-more-worrisone-than-zika-ebola-2016-4">Influenza has always been a concern</a> for decades and decades, and this particular form of influenza for at least two decades," Dye said. "But now, it's risen to a level of concern, I think, which is greater than ever before."<h2 id="17691a35-dcc3-4171-8b3c-1c847c1e9bb6">Mice could bring bird flu into homes</h2>A total of 47 house mice have tested positive for H5N1 in New Mexico, the US Department of Agriculture reported on Tuesday."Mice are kind of everywhere," Gandhi said. "They're around other animals, they're around humans a lot. And it's a little worrisome."<div type="image" title="brown mouse with white belly sits eating small piece of something in the snow" height="1500" width="2250" msid="110949089" hostid="261" sizebytes="37666"></div>The samples were collected from the sick mice in early May. According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/why-the-discovery-of-h5n1-bird-flu-in-mice-is-so-alarming/">The Telegraph</a>, scientists suspect that the mice, as well as some domestic cats, may have gotten the virus from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-milk-food-safety-former-surgeon-general-doctor-2024-4">drinking raw milk from infected cows</a>. (Public health experts resoundingly advise that people should not drink unpasteurized, aka "raw," milk.)"This brings the virus closer to human homes," Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, told The Telegraph. "This is out of control," he added.Every new population of animals, and every new exposure to humans, is another opportunity for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-hiv-had-coronavirus-216-days-virus-mutated-2021-6">the virus to mutate</a> and adapt.<h2 id="abc7e6b4-b179-449b-b66c-ad52a39458d8">One mutation suggests the virus has started adapting</h2><div type="image" title="h5n1 virus microscope image shows black and white long straight worm-shaped organism" height="1500" width="2250" msid="110949092" hostid="261" sizebytes="157400"></div>When the CDC analyzed a virus sample from the second US farmworker infected, they spotted a mutation in the virus's replication machinery — the way it gets inside its host's cells to make copies of itself.It's a change "associated with viral adaptation to mammalian hosts," the CDC said in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2023-2024/h5n1-technical-update-may-24-2024.html">statement in May</a>. The statement also said that studies in mice indicate this type of genetic mutation in the virus is associated with more severe disease and enhanced viral replication.That doesn't make it a human virus yet, though.Other than this one change, H5N1 has mainly "avian virus properties and not human virus properties," Richard Webby, a virologist at St. Jude and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds, told BI.That means the virus is better adapted to thrive and spread among birds, not humans.Still, that could change.<h2 id="ddfee4b3-1706-4652-9418-5ae34679d762">The latest US case had a troubling cough</h2>The first two farmworkers to test positive for H5N1 in the US had <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/treatments/pink-eye-treatment">pink eye</a>. But the third case, reported in Michigan in May, featured a cough and sore throat.That means H5N1 was in that worker's respiratory system, which is a scarier place to find a threatening virus than in our eyes.For one thing, it's easier to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-covid-positive-biden-statement-meadows-book-coughing-on-people-2021-12">spread a virus by coughing</a> or sneezing than by, well, sharing eye fluid.<div type="image" title="A man coughing" height="1439" width="2084" msid="110949086" hostid="261" sizebytes="169668"></div>The good news is that, as far as scientists can tell, H5N1 is still not adapted to humans enough to transmit between us. The CDC has reported no evidence that the coughing farmworker spread the virus to anyone else.But that doesn't mean H5N1 can't mutate to achieve human-to-human transmission — which brings us to the second unfortunate reality of this farmworker's respiratory infection. Compared to the eyes, human lungs are a more convenient place for an avian virus to get more mammalian, according to Webby. In the lungs, the virus is exposed to more of the cell receptors that a mammalian virus would bind to, giving H5N1 more opportunity to mutate and start grabbing onto those receptors — thereby becoming better adapted to infecting and spreading between humans.Many experts fear the USDA and CDC aren't monitoring cattle and farmworkers closely enough to catch concerning mutations early, and that other human cases may be going undetected.<div type="image" title="blue gloved hands in a white lab coat hold a large syringe and a lab tube of fluid" height="1500" width="2250" msid="110949093" hostid="261" sizebytes="47636"></div>"I think there's enough of a threat here to be very alert so that we have a surveillance system in place that, as soon as this happens, we can find it," Dye said.<h2 id="048d06aa-b91d-4421-b98b-5ae259b70f87">Vaccines are in the works</h2>The good news is that bird flu is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/august-flu-vs-covid-infection-rate-2023-8">not COVID-19</a>. Scientists have been tracking this virus and its entire viral family tree, watching for any sign of a growing threat to humans, for decades.As a result, the key elements of a vaccine are already on standby. The US is beginning to manufacture millions of vaccines using "candidate vaccine viruses" — weakened influenza viruses — that the CDC has developed.<div type="image" title="how does the flu shot work" height="1414" width="2121" msid="110949090" hostid="261" sizebytes="78400"></div>Though the candidates are not necessarily perfect matches to H5N1, and the vaccines' use of eggs may be a manufacturing roadblock if bird flu is sweeping the chicken population, they may provide some immunity in the case of a human outbreak.Furthermore, scientists now have proven <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrna-vaccine-pfizer-moderna-coronavirus-2020-12">mRNA vaccine technology</a> at the ready. Vaccines that use mRNA, of which the COVID-19 vaccines were the first approved for use, are more flexible and faster to develop than traditional vaccines — and they don't require eggs.<div type="image" title="white shiny eggs on a machine coming out of a pink glowing chamber" height="1500" width="2667" msid="110949091" hostid="261" sizebytes="187078"></div>Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have already <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2024/may/penn-researchers-develop-experimental-mrna-avian-flu-vaccine">developed</a> an experimental mRNA vaccine for H5N1, which they've successfully tested in mice and ferrets.If H5N1 becomes a problem in humans, a vaccine could be offered with the flu shot you get later this year.In the meantime, bird flu is a looming threat to keep an eye on."As far as I can see, this is not going to go away anytime soon," Dye said.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Egg prices are going up again as the US copes with a new outbreak of avian influenza. </li><li>The country's largest egg producer confirmed a new outbreak of the flu at a Kansas facility last week.</li></ul>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/egg-prices-falling-to-normal-after-high-inflation-groceries-food-2023-6">cost of eggs</a> appears to be spiking for the second time in a year as the US faces a new bout of avian influenza.Egg prices at grocery stores rose 11.4% in November, with most of the increase coming at the end of the month, data provider Datasembly said on Friday. The data is based on on-the-shelf prices collected at stores, a spokesperson for Datasembly told Insider.Demand for eggs — and, consequently, their prices — typically increase during the holidays as consumers bake <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-easy-cookie-recipe-chocolate-peppermint-professional-baker-2023">Christmas cookies</a> and other seasonal treats. But the latest increase seems driven by more than that.Cal-Maine Foods, the largest egg producer in the US, said Tuesday that it paused production at one of its Kansas facilities after chickens tested positive for avian flu.The facility includes about 684,000 egg-laying chickens, or 1.6% of the company's entire flock."Cal-Maine Foods is working to secure production from other facilities to minimize disruption to its customers," the company said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.calmainefoods.com/investors/">in a statement.</a>An outbreak of avian flu in the US sent egg prices higher toward the end of 2022. Last November, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/avian-flu-has-made-organic-eggs-cheaper-than-conventional-ones-2022-12">prices rose 49%</a> over the same month in 2021 — an exceptional increase, even as prices for many types of food were rising fast.By the end of the year, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-avian-influenza-outbreak-us-h5n1-wiping-out-everything-2023-4">egg prices had risen by 59%</a> nationally and more than doubled in some states. By this April, the outbreak had claimed the lives of 58 million birds, including many chickens in egg-laying flocks. At some stores, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/avian-flu-has-made-organic-eggs-cheaper-than-conventional-ones-2022-12">organic eggs sold for less than regular eggs</a>.Since then, the outbreak has subsided, and the prices that shoppers pay for eggs at the store has fallen for most of 2023, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm">consumer price data</a> from the federal government. Those prices fell 22% in the year leading up to November.But wholesale prices, or what retailers and others pay egg producers, rose 71% between October and November, according to the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.htm">Producer Price Index.</a>So far, the outbreak isn't having the same effect on egg prices and availability as last year's bout of avian flu. But some buyers of wholesale eggs have increased their purchasing due to "doubts over the impact of continuing outbreaks," a U.S. Department of Agriculture <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Egg%20Markets%20Overview.pdf">report on the egg market</a> published Friday reads.A spike in egg prices would run counter to most other food prices. Broadly, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-consumer-price-index-economic-outlook-food-gas-prices-october-2023-11">inflation for other grocery items has slowed down</a> or reversed course over the last few months after roughly two years of historic increases.Executives at Kroger, the US's largest supermarket operator, said in November that they expect <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-food-inflation-is-finally-slowing-down-2023-11">food inflation to increase at a slower rate</a> going into 2024.

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