The place are instances positioned as virus continues to spreak

• New York has shut down reside poultry markets in response to detected chicken flu instances.
• The outbreak has resulted within the culling of hundreds of thousands of birds nationwide.
• Whereas human infections are comparatively low, the CDC has reported 67 instances.

Fowl flu continues to devastate poultry farms within the U.S., forcing poultry market closures and, extra lifeless lifeless birds and better egg costs.

On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced the closure of reside poultry markets in New York Metropolis and three counties.

“During the last week, inspectors have detected seven instances of chicken flu in poultry throughout a routine go to to reside chicken markers within the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens,” Hochul mentioned throughout a digital public well being briefing.

Fowl flu has additionally prompted egg costs to skyrocket, and an outlook from the U.S. Division of Agriculture predicting egg costs will improve about 20% throughout the 12 months, in contrast with a predicted 2.2% improve for general meals costs.

Greater than 156 million chickens, geese, turkeys and different fowl have been slaughtered throughout the US because the outbreak started in January 2022. As for people, 67 individuals have been contaminated, in accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management.

Maps of chicken flu instances present the unfold of the virus throughout the US.

The place has chicken flu been seen in people?

How have individuals grow to be contaminated by chicken flu?

What are the signs of chicken flu?

Most individuals contaminated with chicken flu within the U.S. have had gentle signs.

Signs of H5N1 beginning flu an infection in people could embrace pink eye, fever, fatigue, cough, muscle aches, sore throat, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, stuffy or runny nostril and shortness of breath, in accordance with the Cleveland Clinic

Whereas information is proscribed, consultants from the Faculty of American Pathologists mentioned that farmworkers might need completely different signs than others contaminated both due to completely different strains of the virus or as a result of they had been contaminated in several methods.

Farmworkers, for example, could have rubbed their eyes after touching a cow that was contaminated with the virus after which developed pink eyes, which is the most typical of their signs. Somebody who got here into contact with a yard rooster or wild chicken could have inhaled the virus and subsequently turned sicker.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending information reporter for USA TODAY. Attain him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and comply with him on X @fern_cerv_.