It's Thursday, March 13th.
I'm Jane Coastin and this is what a Day.
The show that is celebrating the return of March Madness by getting very stressed out about sports
while definitely not watching sports at work,
a thing you should also definitely not do.
Nope, no sports at work on today's show.
Senate Democrats have their own solution to keep the government open.
And President Donald Trump complains about former president's policies
to the prime minister of Ireland.
But let's start with bird flu,
which has sickened dozens of people in the US as it continues to spread among animals.
And measles as new cases keep showing up.
Fun.
The Department of Agriculture says eggs are about double the price from January of 2024.
An ongoing bird flu outbreak is blamed as the main culprit.
This morning, new numbers show the measles virus spreading like wildfire.
Texas, the center of the worst outbreak, now up to 223 cases,
nearly double that from last month in Nearby New Mexico,
33 cases, more than triple the number from last week.
Earlier this week, a new study found that bird flu is way more prevalent in cows than we thought,