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 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 mentioned. The virus was detected at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
Cal-Maine Meals, which is predicated in Mississippi, mentioned it is going to depend on different services within the meantime to “reduce disruption to its prospects.”
Earlier this week, the Texas Division of State Well being Companies introduced that a person contracted hen flu by means of an outbreak of the illness amongst dairy cattle. He’s the second particular person within the U.S. recognized 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 might be cooked and saved correctly.
