With eggs prices at record highs, why isn't the U.S. using a bird flu vaccine in poultry?

 

I'm thinking the main reason is that it likely wouldn't be cost effective for the egg producers and would ONLY raise Egg prices more nationwide.

Think about the expense of vaccinating millions of chickens trying to bite you or getting hysterical because of being manhandled and many dying in fear. So, in order to vaccinate millions of chickens likely thousands would just die because of fear. These are not people who can think about stuff like this they are chickens who aren't very smart to begin with. (at least in terms of the way humans think of being smart).

There would also be the liability issue of humans getting pecked in the eyes or hands or face or bodies by these chickens desperately trying to survive all this with no real brains to understand what was happening to them and just trying to get away from whatever was happening. IF you have ever been around chickens on a farm or ranch they are pretty strange creatures (at least compared to humans). My wife's mother got locked in a henhouse as a child with 20 chickens attacking her at once and this was the worst trauma likely of her life. However, obviously she survived into her 70s too.

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With eggs prices at record highs, why isn't the U.S. using a bird flu vaccine in poultry?