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Don’t kiss your chickens!
That’s the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is blaming a salmonella outbreak on backyard chicken owners being overly affectionate with their flocks.
The CDC says more than 180 people have come down with salmonella across the U.S. this year from contact with backyard poultry. Thirty-three of them became so sick they required hospitalization.
“We do not recommend snuggling or kissing the birds or touching them to your mouth,” says Megin Nichols, a veterinarian with the CDC, “because that is certainly one way people become infected with salmonella.”
Chicken Owners Brood Over CDC Advice Not To Kiss, Cuddle Birds
Photo credit: Jason Beaubien/NPR
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