Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 9 in Conn- in my news today

[tigger19687]

http://www.necn.com/news/new-englan...break-Sickens-9-in-Connecticut-441299323.html
I have not read it all, but the 1st thing it lists is BACK YARD CHICKENS.

Very short news article. Turns out this is a total amount since the beginning of the year. And it is all blamed on back yard flocks.

 

[JaeG]

Well, my birds have never made me or my kids sick. Good hygiene goes a long way to preventing illness as does proper food preparation. This is a good article on the subject: https://www.mypetchicken.com/backya...lla-a-concern-with-backyard-chickens-H19.aspx

 

[feistyoldbird]

Simple. Wash your hands and wash your equipment. There isn't a source mentioned to be blaming backyard chickens. Doesn't salmonella have to an introduced source? New chickens/chicks or human transmission from coop to coop.
I personally think it's easier to blame a group as a whole then a single source like an egg or bitty farm.

 

[JaeG]

You don't get Salmonella from hugging your chicken that's for sure. You have to come in contact with poop from a diseased bird (and it does have quite obvious symptoms) and get it in your mouth, or you contract it from not properly storing or preparing the meat or eggs from an infected bird, or not having proper hygiene with the equipment used, infecting subsequent carcasses or eggs. Rodents can carry Salmonella so they can spread it round and are often a more likely source of infection than well cared for backyard chickens.

 

[tigger19687]

Simple. Wash your hands and wash your equipment. There isn't a source mentioned to be blaming backyard chickens. Doesn't salmonella have to an introduced source? New chickens/chicks or human transmission from coop to coop.
I personally think it's easier to blame a group as a whole then a single source like an egg or bitty farm.

"multi-state outbreak of salmonella connected to backyard poultry" is in the article .
I just think this gives an unfair look at back yard chickens
Plus it doesn't even tell you in the short article that this is from January this year. That is like saying there were 1,000 murders in your town with out telling you that the number is taken from 2000 to current.