“H5N1 has not been spiking the Mexican chicken industry because Mexico vaccinates its birds. This has a certain up-front cost, but it also means they don’t need to do flock-wide cullings any time a bird tests positive” [1].
I don’t think we need to vaccinate all our chickens. But we clearly need to vaccinate a resilient core to stabilise egg prices.
(The author also said “Americans in border states were driving to Mexico to buy eggs and bringing them back home,” nothing that “this is illegal, so please don’t do it.” Egg prices, like housing prices, are a policy choice. Not an act of god. In the case of eggs, we favour protecting domestic production over consumer prices.)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...