The humble egg, one of nature’s perfect foods, a self-packaged, relatively inexpensive source of protein that can serve as a lowly hangover remedy or help a souffle rise to heavenly heights, is also a great teacher. It’s helping Americans understand how a free-market economy works: When demand is high and supply is low, prices rise.

“The national egg supply has been strained due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza—also known as HPAI or Bird Flu—which is devastating to egg farmers. In the U.S., we’ve lost more than 40 million laying hens in the past year to Bird Flu.

Story courtesy of our news-gathering partners at Hoosier Ag Today There’s been a lot of misinformation out there on social media when it comes to Bird Flu… Even though at least six commercial poultry farms across Indiana have had a positive test for the virus since the beginning of the year,

Anytime the virus is found on a poultry farm, the entire flock is slaughtered to help limit the virus' spread.

Bird flu has sickened several dozen people around the U.S. and left one person dead while egg price hikes and shortages have also affected consumers.