NYS orders live poultry markets on Long Island, NYC, Westchester to temporarily shut down over bird flu concerns
The unusual order follows an outbreak of bird flu at an Aquebogue duck farm and detections of the disease in markets in ...
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Crescent Duck Farm owner: Vaccine to protect poultry against bird flu is essential
The owner of Long Island’s last remaining duck farm, forced to cull its entire flock of nearly 100,000 Pekin ducks last month in response to an outbreak of avian flu, says he is “truly scared” ...
Aquebogue duck farm owner pressing feds to approve vaccines to protect poultry
Doug Corwin, owner of Crescent Duck Farms in Aquebogue, wrote to newly named EPA administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday.
As bird flu ravages poultry industry, the damage spreads
After the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the U.S. in 2022, more than 148 million birds have been euthanized. What ...
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Avian flu strikes close to home in Riverhead, as its spread devastates poultry flocks, reduces egg production across U.S.
The growing impacts of avian flu around the globe struck close to home this month with the outbreak at the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue.
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Long Island’s last duck farm weighs closure after outbreak
NEW YORK — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm.
Over 100,000 Ducks to Be Killed on New York Farm Due to Bird Flu Outbreak: ‘The Remedy Is to Put the Entire Flock Down’
More than 100,000 ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in New York farm are being euthanized due to an outbreak of the avian flu, with ...
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Bird Flu Outbreak Forces Culling of 100,000 Ducks, Threatening Last Duck Farm in Long Island
FRIDAY, Jan. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The last duck farm on New York's Long Island is facing an uncertain ... to operate Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, which has been open since 1908 ...