The risk of transmission to humans remains low, but it can happen. As the popularity of keeping backyard and urban chicken flocks grows, health and agriculture experts warn that bird flu can pose a risk to your feathered friends — and by extension, a small risk to you, as well.

Poultry farms across the region will now undergo special testing after one area farm tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Culver Duck Farms confirmed on Wednesday that one of its barns tested positive on Tuesday.