New Yorkers ought to keep away from wildlife after a number of instances of chicken flu had been found in a Manhattan park, well being specialists warned Wednesday.
Wild geese, a peregrine falcon and a red-tailed hawk have examined optimistic for the virus in Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan, according to CBS.
A rooster was additionally discovered carrying the illness in the identical greenspace, Philip Meade, a postdoctoral fellow at Icahn School of Medicine, instructed the outlet.
“Precautions that everybody should be taking would be just to limit contact with wildlife,” he stated. “You shouldn’t be running up to a Canada goose and trying to catch it.”
But he added, “You’re not gonna walk past a sick goose and get the bird flu. It won’t work like that.”
New Yorkers also needs to wash their fingers after any contact with chicken droppings, specialists stated.
In the previous month, the virus has been present in 12 flocks of untamed birds throughout seven states, the vast majority of which had been in Texas.
The illness was additionally found in home poultry.
There isn’t any signal of chicken flu spreading to individuals presently, the CDC stated.
In the previous two years, solely two individuals have been contaminated with the illness, often known as H5N1, within the United States.
The sufferers — from Texas and Colorado, respectively — had been involved with cattle together with chickens, in line with the CDC.
