The announcement of the eighth case of HPAI in Nebraska came just before the CDC announced the first human case of bird flu has been confirmed in neighboring Colorado.
with farmers fearful of losing their entire flocks from kansas. you can take all the precautions you want to and you still might have a backyard flock that could catch this virus reporter: to long island, new york one little case and it could spread to the others, the next thing you know they ll all be gone. reporter: the map shows bird flu cases have spread across at least a third of the country, often carried by wild geese and ducks, sometimes drinking or eating from the same source even zoo birds are at risk now that it s a little closer we re having to go ahead and move them indoors. reporter: unlike covid, health experts say there s little risk of bird flu jumping to humans. this virus is devastating for birds, it can go from flock to flock, but it doesn t easily transmit to humans and it definitely doesn t go human to human at this point reporter: during a previous bird flu outbreak, i had to suit up in a biosecurity suit and decontaminate my shoes before going in
A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York, federal authorities confirmed Saturday. Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center and confirmed at the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service laboratories in Ames, Iowa. New York state officials have quarantined the site in Suffolk County and birds on the affected properties “will be depopulated to prevent the spread of disease,” said the USDA in a statement, noting that birds from the flock will not enter the food system.