Bird Flu 2024 Milk Price. An alarming 14% of raw milk samples taken from four states with dairy herd outbreaks contained infectious h5n1 bird flu, according to new testing results released. The last time bird flu struck us farms, in early 2022, egg prices more than doubled during the year, reaching a peak of $4.82 for a dozen in january 2023.
But what it does mean is that the outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows is bigger than officials had thought. An alarming 14% of raw milk samples taken from four states with dairy herd outbreaks contained infectious h5n1 bird flu, according to new testing results released.