Soaring egg prices have consumers boiling, and on Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture blamed rising costs on the bird flu epidemic and said it will take new steps to quell the outbreak.

Dr. Carlson said with only conditional approval, there are still many steps to accomplish, and that could take a year or two before the vaccine is released in large quantities.

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out the US Department of Agriculture’s $1 billion plan to lessen the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak and deal with the major increases in egg prices around the United States.

The vaccine from Zoetis, Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus, is for poultry and has been demonstrated to be safe, pure, and to have a reasonable expectation of efficacy

PARSIPPANY, NJ. — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a conditional license for an avian influenza vaccine as outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry flocks continue throughout the United States.

The U.S. will invest up to $1 billion to combat the spread of bird flu, including increasing imports of eggs, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Leah Douglas, Editing by Louise Heavens) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

The Trump administration will allocate up to $1B to prevent the spread of bird flu and boost egg imports, Reuters reported, quoting the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, on Wednesday. She delivered the remarks at a conference of state agriculture officials against a backdrop of a three-year bird flu outbreak that has led to the death