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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a five-pronged strategy to address highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), as well as lowering egg prices. The strategy includes strengthening biosecurity assessments, expediting relief for producers to accelerate repopulation, reducing regulatory burdens to expand supply and lower prices, exploring temporary import-export adjustments to stabilize the supplies of eggs domestically, and investing $100 Million in avian flu research and vaccine development. These funds will target projects that: Develop novel therapeutics to address HPAI in poultry, advance research on avian influenza risk pathways to improve biosecurity and outbreak response and explore vaccine candidates to protect poultry while minimizing trade disruptions.