{"id":108857,"date":"2025-02-07T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ny-poultry-markets-shut-down-as-a-precaution-over-bird-flu\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:04:03","slug":"ny-poultry-markets-shut-down-as-a-precaution-over-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ny-poultry-markets-shut-down-as-a-precaution-over-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"NY poultry markets shut down as a precaution over bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-07\/Getty_Chickens_020725.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Costfoto\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, state officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The cases were discovered during routine inspections. All infected flocks will be depopulated, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The state stressed the shutdowns are prudent steps. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul noted that avian flu does not pose a public health threat.<\/p>\n<p>The order requires those markets to sell down all inventory, complete cleaning and disinfection procedures and remain closed for a period of five days after cleaning and disinfection.<\/p>\n<p>There are no human cases of avian influenza, and the threat to the public is low.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of bird flu have increased among animals &#8212; including dairy cows, wild birds, poultry and even pet cats.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a second type of bird flu was found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced.<\/p>\n<p>The number of birds affected by the virus has been rising in recent months, with roughly 7 million affected in November, 18 million in December, and 23 million in January, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Mary Kekatos contributed to this report.<\/em><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costfoto\/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, state officials said Friday.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/ny-poultry-markets-shut-down-as-a-precaution-over-bird-flu\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}