Instances of eggs from Cal-Maine Meals, Inc., await to be handed out by the Mississippi Division of Agriculture and Commerce workers on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 7, 2020.
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Instances of eggs from Cal-Maine Meals, Inc., await to be handed out by the Mississippi Division of Agriculture and Commerce workers on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 7, 2020.
Rogelio V. Solis/AP
Cal-Maine Meals, Inc., the most important producer of contemporary eggs within the U.S., has quickly halted manufacturing at one in every of its amenities after chook flu was detected there, the corporate introduced Tuesday.
The corporate misplaced about 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or about 3.6% of its flock, on account of the outbreak, it mentioned. The virus was detected at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
Cal-Maine Meals, which is predicated in Mississippi, mentioned it’s going to depend on different amenities within the meantime to “decrease disruption to its clients.”
Earlier this week, the Texas Division of State Well being Companies introduced that a person contracted chook flu by way of an outbreak of the illness amongst dairy cattle. He’s the second individual within the U.S. recognized to be contaminated with the virus.
The CDC says the probability of somebody getting chook flu could be very low, and that an individual can not contract it from eggs which can be cooked and saved correctly.
