More than 60 dead birds were found at Billington Sea in Plymouth over the weekend. Local experts suspect the avian flu was the culprit.
Public health officials say avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been identified as the cause of death for waterfowl in numerous Indiana counties.
In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible bird flu cases hiding in the flock of rising flu diagnoses.
The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.
The owners of Kakadoodle Farm in suburban Matteson are left in shock after bird flu decimated their operations, leading to the deaths of their entire flock of chickens.
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The owner of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., has been forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks due to positive bird flu tests.
A farm in the Long Island area of New York has been forced to euthanize over 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak.
Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.