{"id":21798,"date":"2025-02-07T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21798"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:28:35","slug":"new-york-live-bird-markets-ordered-to-close-after-bird-flu-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21798","title":{"rendered":"New York Live Bird Markets Ordered to Close After Bird Flu Is Found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The order affects roughly 80 markets in New York City and in several nearby counties. Gov. Kathy Hochul described it as a \u201cproactive\u201d step to help curb the spread of bird flu.<\/p>\n

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All live bird markets in New York City and in several nearby counties must close temporarily in hopes of curbing the spread of bird flu, which was detected at some of the markets in the past week, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The order, which came from the state\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Markets<\/a>, affects the roughly 80 live markets in New York City and in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Seven cases of bird flu had been detected at markets in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Markets with confirmed cases must get rid of their inventory, while those where bird flu has not been detected have three days to either sell or dispose of all their inventory. All markets must then be cleaned and disinfected before closing for at least five days.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafeguarding public health is all about being proactive,\u201d Governor Hochul said in a statement, adding that she would \u201ccontinue to take these measured, common-sense steps\u201d to try to stop the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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H5N1, a form of bird flu, has affected more than 156 million commercial, backyard and wild birds<\/a> in the United States since 2022. As bird flu has spread across the globe, public health experts have become increasingly concerned about live animal markets.<\/p>\n

There were around 70 live animal markets in New York City<\/a> as of last year, some of which were near schools and residential buildings<\/a>. Most of them butcher and sell chickens, duck and quail, while around a quarter also slaughter larger animals like sheep, goats, cows and pigs. They sell both to local restaurants and to the general public.<\/p>\n

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The order affects roughly 80 markets in New York City and in several nearby counties. Gov. Kathy Hochul described it as a \u201cproactive\u201d step to help curb the spread of bird flu.All live bird markets in New York City and in several nearby counties must close temporarily in hopes of curbing the spread of bird flu, which was detected at some of the markets in the past week, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.The order, which came from the state\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Markets, affects the roughly 80 live markets in New York City and in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Seven cases of bird flu had been detected at markets in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn.Markets with confirmed cases must get rid of their inventory, while those where bird flu has not been detected have three days to either sell or dispose of all their inventory. All markets must then be cleaned and disinfected before closing for at least five days.\u201cSafeguarding public health is all about being proactive,\u201d Governor Hochul said in a statement, adding that she would \u201ccontinue to take these measured, common-sense steps\u201d to try to stop the spread of the virus.H5N1, a form of bird flu, has affected more than 156 million commercial, backyard and wild birds in the United States since 2022. As bird flu has spread across the globe, public health experts have become increasingly concerned about live animal markets.There were around 70 live animal markets in New York City as of last year, some of which were near schools and residential buildings. Most of them butcher and sell chickens, duck and quail, while around a quarter also slaughter larger animals like sheep, goats, cows and pigs. They sell both to local restaurants and to the general public.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21800,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21801,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21798\/revisions\/21801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}