A snow goose in West Philadelphia ’s Carroll Park neighborhood is the city’s first suspected case of a highly contagious avian flu spreading among birds and cattle across the country, Philadelphia health officials said Wednesday.

Philadelphia health officials say a goose found next to Carroll Park in West Philadelphia had highly infectious bird flu.

Public health officials in Philadelphia reported the first suspected case of bird flu in the city on Wednesday after a sick goose found in a West Philadelphia neighborhood was positive for the disease in preliminary tests.

Bird flu is the suspected culprit after more than 60 geese, swans and ducks were found sick or dead in a Plymouth pond called Billington Sea.

A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New York facility.

From chickens to wildlife, the latest strain of bird flu is spiking — and it is hitting people right in the wallet. But as Jermont Terry reports, there is also a health risk to both wild and domesticated birds,