Bird Flu in New Jersey

The bird flu virus has been found at 4 live poultry markets in the state of New Jersey, US officials said on Thursday.

The bird flu virus has been found at 4 live poultry markets in the state of New Jersey, US officials said on Thursday.But they have downplayed the findings, saying the virus has been present in live poultry markets in New York and New Jersey for many years. Advertisement “The single take-home message is that the form of avian influenza in New Jersey is not a human health threat,” state commissioner of health Clifton Lacy said.Other New Jersey officials also stressed that the flu strain involved is not the same as the Asian virus that has killed 19 people and devastated poultry flocks in Asia. officials said they found bird flu in four live poultry markets in the northeastern part of the state during annual testing. They said it was the same H7N2 strain found on two farms in Delaware in the past week, but that the circumstances were different.(Source: Channel News Asia, Feb 2004)