D3sign | Moment | Getty ImagesThe surge in egg prices has stood out in a year when Americans saw their bills balloon across the grocery store.Average egg prices jumped 49.1% in November compared with those a year earlier — the largest annual percentage increase among all grocery items in that period, according to the consumer price index, a barometer of inflation.By comparison, the overarching “food at home” category was up 12%.The increase is even more acute when measured by the cost of a dozen large, Grade A eggs, which more than doubled to $3.59 in November from $1.72 the year-earlier month, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.Bird flu is largely to blame for rising egg pricesThose price dynamics are primarily due to the deadliest outbreak of bird flu in U.S. history, which has killed millions of egg-la …
