The article describes the government's efforts to protect several flu vaccine-related egg farms scattered across Pennsylvania. "In 2005, the U.S. classified these chicken barns as part of the nation's 'critical infrastructure,' giving them a kind of top-secret status," mainly out of concern "the egg farms could be targeted for terrorist attacks or struck by chicken-killing pathogens," the newspaper writes. "To ensure it had enough eggs to meet pandemic-level demand, the government invested more than $44 million in the program over five years; more than 35 farms are now involved in this feathered Manhattan Project" (Whalen, 1/12).

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