Bird flu was detected at a Staten Island live poultry market last week, according to the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets.
The agency did not give the exact location of the market, saying in a statement, “To protect the impacted premise, the Department’s policy is to only release county-level location information.”
The NYCLASS animal rights group pointed to new cases of avian flu that were discovered on March 3, 6 and 7 at reopened “live animal slaughter markets” in Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn…