Eggs are hard to come by at the grocery store lately, but you’ll also be hard pressed to find chickens — and cows for that matter — at this year’s L.A. County Fair, due to the ongoing spread of H5N1, commonly known as bird flu.
To counter the spread, California in January issued a ban on all poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions at fairs.
As of January, 720 cases of bird flu in livestock have been reported, the latest numbers available.
“We made the decision a few months ago, when it did come out, just not to have them on the grounds,” said Walter Marquez, president of Fairplex, which hosts the L.A. County Fair in Pomona every year…