More than 100 chickens, geese, ducks and other birds at the farm at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford have been culled after some of them tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, township Supervisor Anthony Bartolotta said Friday.
The birds were identified Thursday by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Urban Development as being a “backyard flock” in Oakland County with the virus.
That’s just one bit of public information that was corrected Friday both by Bartolotta and by the Oakland County Health Division, which also acknowledged only one person is symptomatic after contact with the birds — not two, as a county spokesperson reported Thursday…