Why are egg prices so expensive right now? What is the average price during the 2025 egg shortage? What we know on why prices are up on a dozen eggs and more.

Bird flu has led to a wide variety of symptoms during recent outbreaks, including common flu symptoms like cough and vomiting. Many have also had conjunctivitis or pink eye as their only symptom, which experts suspect is from contaminated milk from cows infected by bird flu being splashed onto workers.