Cases of H5N1 avian influenza have been detected in Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky, posing a likely threat to the United States’ domestic supply of chicken and turkey this winter. On Monday, the CDC announced detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses in domesticated birds. This outbreak was first documented in Indiana, but has since spread eastward to Kentucky and Virginia, if not elsewhere. Altogether, over 300,000 birds are already affected, directly or indirectly, by the proliferation of this virus. At one Tyson Foods farm in Kentucky alone, where avian flu was detected, there are an estimated 246,000 chickens. It is unclear how many of these will be euthanized to contain the virus. Last week, over 30,000 turkeys were euthanized at a farm in Indiana after the H5N1 virus was detected there, for the first time in the United States since 2020. The timing of the new avian flu wave is …