Your neighbhorhoood chicken might not be the best idea.
A person who gets sick from the salmonella bacteria will have diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps within 12 to 72 hours afterward and remain sick for four to seven days, the CDC said. Most patients recover on their own.
Backyard poultry, especially chickens, have become popular pets in the U.S. Many owners continue to use them as a source for eggs and meat, too. The state with the most cases in this outbreak is Ohio with nine, followed by Missouri with six, Pennsylvania with five, Tennessee and Virginia with four each and Mississippi with three. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas and Texas have two cases each, and Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming have one each.Always wash your hands with soap immediately after touching backyard chickens and ducks or the places where they live.
Prohibit backyard poultry from coming into your house, especially places where you store, prepare and consume food and drinks.Don't let children under age 5, adults over 65 and people with weakened immune systems touch the poultry.Only clean your backyard poultry equipment, like cages and feed, outdoors.
According to the CDC, approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. are infected with salmonella each year. An estimated 23,000 need to be hospitalized and 450 die.A man in Nashville was arrested after he accused his neighbor's dog of killing one of his chickens and attacking the neighbor with an ax.
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