HUMANS, BUT IT COULD SEND FOOD PRICES SOARING EVEN HIGHER.
HERE IS TOM COSTELLO.
>> Reporter: IT’S
HAPPENING AT POULTRY
FARMS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
A MASSIVE SLAUGHTER
UNDERWAY THAT COULD
SEND FOOD PRICES
SOARING.
190,000 BIRDS CULLED
IN SOUTH DAKOTA,
570,000 IN NEBRASKA,
6.2 MILLION IN IOWA.
WITH FARMERS FEARFUL
OF LOSING THEIR ENTIRE
FLOCKS FROM KANSAS --
>> YOU CAN TAKE ALL
THE PRECAUTIONS THAT
YOU WANT TO AND YOU
STILL MIGHT HAVE A
BACKYARD FLOCK THAT
COULD CATCH THIS
VIRUS.
>> Reporter: TO LONG
ISLAND, NEW YORK.
>> ONE LITTLE CASE AND
IT COULD SPREAD.
NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
THEY HAD BE GONE.
>> Reporter: BIRD FLU
CASES HAVE ALREADY
SPREAD ACROSS AT LEAST
A THIRD OF THE
COUNTRY.
OFTEN CARRIED BY WILD
DWEES AND
GEESE AND DUCKS,
SOMETIMES DRINKING OR
EATING FROM THE SAME
SOURCE.
EVEN ZOO BIRDS AT
RISK.
>> WE ARE HAVING TO GO
AHEAD AND MOVE THEM
INDOORS.
>> Reporter: UNLIKE
COVID, HEALTH EXPERTS
SAY THERE IS RIL
LOW-RISK
LITTLE RISK OF BIRD
FLU JUMPING TO HUMANS.
>> IT’S DEVASTATING
FROM BIRDS.
BUT IT DOESN’T EASILY
TRANSMIT TO HUMANS AND
DOES NOT GO
HUMAN-TO-HUMAN AT THIS
POINT.
>> Reporter: IN A
PREVIOUS BIRD FLU
OUTBREAK I HAD TO SUIT
UP IN A BIOSECURITY
SUIT AND DECONTAMINATE
MY SHOES BEFORE GOING
INSIDE A PARMOULTRY
FARMHOUSE.
THIS IS THE WORST
SINCE 2015 WHEN 50
MILLION BIRDS WERE
SLAUGHTERED OR KILLED
BY THE VIRUS AND IT’S
ONLY GROWING WORSE.
THE RISK TO HUMANS,
VERY LOW.