The U.S. Department of Agriculture will rehire the Inspection Service front-line employees it fired over the weekend so they can continue their work on the avian flu outbreak.
These employees were fired over the weekend as the bird flu crisis has threatened more farmers and led the price of eggs to increase. As millions of chickens have died of the virus, egg production suffered, increasing the price by 15.2% in January alone.
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