Nearly 100,000 ducks volition beryllium killed astatine Long Island’s past large commercialized duck workplace aft bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility.
Crescent Duck Farm successful Aquebogue has played big to galore authorities and national officials and inspectors aft the discovery past week, Newsday reported.
“You perpetually show your flock — 3 times a day. One time things looked unusual. I noticed a fewer lethargic birds that didn’t look right,” workplace president Doug Corwin told the outlet.
The birds tested affirmative for H5N1 influenza, the vertebrate flu that has been infecting people, poultry and pets since 2022.
No radical moving astatine Crescent Duck Farm oregon different adjacent animals person tested affirmative for H5N1, according to News 12 Long Island. The workplace was quarantined, and its 99,000 birds volition beryllium euthanized to forestall immoderate dispersed of the disease.
Long Island was erstwhile known for its extended duck farming industry, but Crescent Duck Farm is the last commercialized workplace inactive standing. Corwin told Newsday helium wasn’t definite the cognition would past the euthanasia of the full flock.
“This isn’t my job, it’s my life,” helium told the paper. “It’s my legacy. I deliberation we’re benignant of iconic, considering we are what Long Island was known for. And I conscionable don’t privation it to extremity this way.”
While vertebrate flu easy circulates successful chaotic birds, its dispersed to different animals has caused problems for the American nutrient industry. Last week, a poultry works successful Georgia had to unopen down aft aggregate chickens tested positive.
Throughout the U.S., 67 radical person been infected by H5N1 during the lengthy outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control. One person, identified lone arsenic a Louisiana antheral older than 65, died a fewer weeks ago.
The antheral had been in interaction with sick and dying infected birds successful a backyard flock, according to a CDC investigation.