Gov. Kathy Hochul must shut down NYC’s live poultry markets for good, activists urged this week after visiting four recently reopened spots. “Each one of these places was worse than the last,” said ...

NEW YORK -- All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after the detection of seven cases of avian flu, which has also hit farms ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said there is no immediate threat to public health and that the temporary closure of bird markets in the city and its Westchester County and Long Island suburbs comes out of an ...

Bird flu cases continue to be detected in live poultry markets in the city two months after the state temporarily shut them down to contain the virus. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which is ...

This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024, shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in ...