NEW YORK (AP) — Live poultry markets in New York City raced to sell off all their chickens and other fowl Friday after seven cases of avian flu were detected and state officials ordered markets ...

NEW YORK -- Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in ...

New York City’s wet markets – stores that house and slaughter mostly live poultry – landed in the spotlight last month after bird flu was detected at nine downstate markets, prompting Gov.

In early February, it was discovered that seven birds in four New York City live poultry markets in had bird flu. It’s a looming contagion crisis which, over the last month, compelled New York Gov.

Despite growing attention on the avian flu, New York City’s poultry markets appeared to be doing brisk business Friday. Outside the Wallabout Poultry market in Brooklyn, a line of customers took ...