But in terms of how this is going to affect our economy, there are 300 million egg laying chickens. Over 40 million of them have been affected by this and have been destroyed. That's 13.3% of the total egg laying population. There are 238 million turkeys raised every year. 8 million have had to be euthanized because of this outbreak. That's estimated to be about an $8 billion impact on, onto in our economy. (01:10–01:14)
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