Visitors to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area should avoid handling any wildlife and immediately report sick or dead birds as the state responds to an avian influenza outbreak.
Officials at the park are putting up advisories to help curb the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the area, but they noted that visitors are still welcome at bird-watching spots.
The warning comes as the commission responds to the recent avian influenza outbreak, also known as HPAI, in the commonwealth…