Circumstances 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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Circumstances 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 biggest producer of recent eggs within the U.S., has quickly halted manufacturing at considered one of its services after hen 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, because of the outbreak, it stated. The virus was detected at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
Cal-Maine Meals, which relies in Mississippi, stated it should depend on different services within the meantime to “decrease disruption to its clients.”
Earlier this week, the Texas Division of State Well being Providers introduced that a person contracted hen flu by way of an outbreak of the illness amongst dairy cattle. He’s the second individual within the U.S. identified to be contaminated with the virus.
The CDC says the chance of somebody getting hen flu may be very low, and that an individual can’t contract it from eggs which are cooked and saved correctly.
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