Bird flu has been detected in some birds found in New York City parks and green spaces.
Health officials are growing more concerned about the disease and warn New Yorkers to keep their distance from wildlife.
Philip Meade, a postdoctoral fellow at Icahn School of Medicine, says bird flu has been found in several geese, a peregrine falcon, a red-tailed hawk and a chicken in Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan.
So far, only two humans have been infected with H5N1, or bird flu, in the United States since 2022, including one case that was reported earlier this month in Texas.
The patient in Texas had been in close contact with dairy cows that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were presumably infected with H5N1, and the patient infected in 2022 was a poultry worker in Colorado.