It IS bigger than it is. The difference betwwen the countries with the outbreaks and here are the growing conditions of the birds. There ain't nothing like what goes on in China here. Chickens here are essentially sealed off from the rest of the world, grown in very stringent ways, in order to make automated machinery kill and cut up the anamal. All birds need to be dimensionally identical to go through the machines. This can not be accomplished if grown as in China, VietNam, etc.
The conditions in the chicken houses aren't exactly pretty anywhere, but in the USA, they are relatively clean, everybody is wearing ppe, the coops are cleaned regularly, etc.
The chickens in coops here are not exposed to migratory birds in the coop. The only way to pass H5n1 from bird to bird is direct contact with each other or with each others fecal matter.
Taken those facts, would you vote to spend the money? Not me.

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