By Jen Christensen | CNN

last week, new US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins held a meeting to review the agency’s options for controlling the and possibly help lower the .

On her first day on the job bird flu outbreakprice of eggs

In another meeting last week, Rollins met with two dozen farmers to hear their ideas about She promised them relief.

how to fight bird flu.

“This problem wasn’t created overnight, and it will take us a little time to tackle this issue, but we will take aggressive action to help our poultry farmers combat avian flu and to make eggs affordable again,”