# Bird flu spreads on U.S. poultry farms | Reuters

> More than 22 million commercially raised U.S. chickens and turkeys have been killed as bird flu spreads across U.S. poultry farms. The outbreak is occurring alongside high food prices driven by labor shortages, supply-chain problems and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

- Date: 2022-03-07 · published 2022-03-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/16290-bird-flu-spreads-on-u-s-poultry-farms-reuters
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Losses of this scale cut domestic poultry supply, which supports chicken prices and can shift feed demand lower as flocks are depopulated.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- reuters.com: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bird-flu-spreads-us-poultry-farms-2022-03-07/

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