New York Governor Kathy Hochul says inspectors detected seven cases of the virus in poultry at live bird markets in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens over the past week. FOX 5 NY's Linda Schmidt has the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week ...

The governor said the move comes from an "abundance of caution" after avian flu H5N1 was found in bird markets in the Bronx.

The unusual order follows an outbreak of bird flu at an Aquebogue duck farm and detections of the disease in markets in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Gov. Kathy Hochul this morning announced that bird flu has arrived in the New York Metro area, with a total of seven cases reported so far in poultry. As a precaution, she ordered a one-week shutdown ...