The Suffolk County Health Department noted that avian flu “at this point is not transmissible among humans” More than 100,000 ducks at one New York farm are being euthanized due to an outbreak of the avian flu.

Rhode Island officials on Friday afternoon confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in a noncommercial farm flock in southern Washington County. The state Department of Environmental Management said in a statement that department staff euthanized about 40 birds earlier Friday “to minimize their suffering from the infection and prevent the spread of the disease to other birds.