"Angry Chicken" Disease Peril to Chicken Soup Industry

The first suspected case of angry chicken disease ineffort."Meal Mart's stock price dropped in trading
the United States was reported Tuesday anddespite its announcement that the small chicken soup
threatens to devastate the country's $98 billionplant that the diseased chicken was sent to had no
chicken soup industry.A Holstein chicken from a farmconnection to its supply chain. Kosher Delight stated
in Manhattan was found to have the disease. Thethat their chicken soup is at least two years old so
Upper West Side breed is known to have a shortthere are no problems in their stores.An angry
temper to begin with all chicken farms in the areachicken outbreak that began in Britain in 1986 spread
were put on alert.The Agriculture Departmentthrough Europe and Asia. It caused a rise in the
assured that the infected parts of the chicken neveramount of the sniffles and full-blown colds by almost
made it to the chicken soup plant and that no other200%. The epidemic battered the British chicken
soups were known to have the disease."We remainsoup industry. Millions of bowls of chicken soup had
confident of the safety of our chicken soup foodto be spilled out. They only recently recovered, just
supply," Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman said.in time for a harsh British winter.Copyright 2005 Cy
She said the risk to consumers is, "extremely low."Yablonsky. Cy Yablonsky is an Associate Realtor with
She also said that this also comes at a veryOthello Realty, you can visit Othello Realty at Feel
inopportune time. "I fear that people will be toofree to reprint this article but you must include this
nervous to eat chicken soup at a time when the fluparagraph and all links must be live and working, no
season is pretty unforgiving. We rely on chicken soupchanges can be made.
to control flu outbreaks and this can hinder the