Salmonella in indoor and outdoor chicken housing

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Animals and the Built Environment Infectious Diseases

Posted on March 2, 2017

This paper may be of interest to some. Basically, the authors compared Salmonella levels in outdoor vs. indoor housing for chickens. The main push behind this appears to be the growing trend for having more outdoor housing for chickens and the question of whether or not that leads to higher levels of pathogens. See …

Backyard chickens linked to increasing Salmonella outbreaks

By David Coil Posted in Animals and the Built Environment Infectious Diseases

Posted on September 18, 2016June 2, 2017

So I feel like this shouldn’t need to be said… but clearly it does. Don’t kiss chickens or bring them into your bedroom. Should my opinion not carry enough weight, simply check out this new report from the CDC “Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Associated with Live Poultry, United States, 1990—2014”. Abstract below. Major highlights …