The recommendation to citizens: “Stay away if they encounter a bird or any other animal that is sick, dead or behaving strangely”
Bird flu alert rises in the United States. After the revelation of virus highly contagious in birds in several areas of New Yorkscientists and health authorities recommend citizens to “stay away if they encounter a bird, or any other animal, that is sick, dead, or behaving strangely.”
A study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in birds in the green spaces of New York, including Manhattan, in a free-roaming chicken, and then geese in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, a hawk with red tail in Queens and a peregrine falcon in the Bronx. Experts therefore invite New Yorkers to use common sense to avoid risks. If you are dealing with a sick animal, gloves should be worn or other precautions taken to avoid direct contact, children and pets should be kept away.
Only two human cases of avian influenza have been reported in the US since 2022 and the CDC considers the current risk to public health to be low, while recommending caution.
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