The Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, which lost its entire flock of 99,000 to an outbreak of bird flu, has begun the long, methodical process of sanitizing its facilities.

"Locals helping locals." The community will come together with an auction to help Crescent Duck Farm, which had to euthanize its flock.

Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue will have to euthanize every bird at the facility after H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in the flock.

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying sign that the virus is evolving in ways that could make it harder to