New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The ...
The news hit hard: Bird flu had struck Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, forcing the well-known supplier to euthanize all ...
The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its ...
A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New ...
Established in 1908, the Aquebogue site is the last commercial duck farm on Long Island, once world-renowned for its ducks.
The Suffolk County Health Department noted that avian flu “at this point is not transmissible among humans” More than 100,000 ...
The risk to humans is still considered low, although transmission is possible for farm workers who handle the infected flock ...
Suffolk County health officials announced that they found bird flu at the last remaining commercial duck farm on Long Island, ...
Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.
Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host to ...