There is new hope when it comes to egg prices. A company producing a bird flu vaccine has now been granted conditional approval from the United States Department of Agriculture. While this current strain of the avian flu has been top of mind for the past few months,

The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an outbreak of a newer variant ravages poultry flocks, contributing to the sky high price of eggs.

The United States Department of Agriculture conditionally approved a vaccine to mitigate the spread of bird flu amongst America’s poultry and other animals.

The vaccine from Zoetis, Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus, is for poultry and has been demonstrated to be safe, pure, and to have a reasonable expectation of efficacy

In the past three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says about 150 million birds died across the country due to the virus. This month, the USDA granted a conditional license to Zoetis for its Avian Influenza Vaccine.

The bird flu outbreak is causing the price of eggs to soar, with prices at a 45-year high. The founder of the second largest egg producer in the U.S., John Rust, of Rose Acre Farms joins The Weekend to discuss.

As egg prices soar to new highs, the two industries are on opposite sides of the debate over whether to give shots to birds.