NEW YORK — Bird flu has been detected in some birds present in New York City parks and inexperienced areas.
Health officers are rising extra involved in regards to the illness and warn New Yorkers to maintain their distance from wildlife.
Philip Meade, a postdoctoral fellow at Icahn School of Medicine, says chicken flu has been present in a number of geese, a peregrine falcon, a red-tailed hawk and a rooster in Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan.
So far, solely two people have been contaminated with H5N1, or chicken flu, within the United States since 2022, together with one case that was reported earlier this month in Texas.
The affected person in Texas had been in shut contact with dairy cows that, in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had been presumably contaminated with H5N1, and the affected person contaminated in 2022 was a poultry employee in Colorado.
“You’re not gonna walk previous a sick goose and get the chicken flu. It will not work like that,” Meade mentioned. “Precautions that everyone ought to be taking can be simply to restrict contact with wildlife … You should not be operating as much as a Canada goose and attempting to catch it.”
Health officers say each of the recent human circumstances had been delicate. The CDC says there isn’t any signal of chicken flu spreading between individuals right now.
Anyone who sees sick or useless aquatic birds or raptors within the metropolis ought to name the state Department of Environmental Conservation at (718) 482-4922 or (518) 478-2203. To report sick or useless rooster or poultry, you possibly can name the state Department of Agriculture and Markets at (518) 457-3502.
If you see a gaggle of 10 or extra useless birds collectively, name 311.
