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Easter baskets without live bunnies, chicks and ducklings are best

By News Desk on April 8, 2023

Giving live animals as Easter gifts has been a long-standing tradition, but there are serious public health and humane concerns. Year after year hundreds of human illnesses and agonizing deaths for baby chicks, ducks and…

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Easter basket

Leave the live bunnies, chicks and ducklings out of the basket

By Jonan Pilet on April 2, 2021

Giving live animals as Easter gifts has been a tradition for decades, as a child I received a rabbit one Easter and baby chicks the Easter after. And beside my anecdotal evidence of the chicks …
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Salmonella outbreak now involves 1 death and 42 states; live poultry blamed

By News Desk on June 25, 2020

One person has died and more than 350 additional people have been infected with Salmonella from backyard poultry flocks, according to a CDC outbreak update. A third of the ill people are children younger than…
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EU unveils food safety audit priorities for 2019

By Joe Whitworth on January 22, 2019

More than a third of audits and fact-finding missions by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) will deal with food safety this year.

The EC plans to conduct up to…
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EFSA says wild birds spread avian flu to E.U. member states

By News Desk on October 26, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says migratory wild birds are spreading avian influenza around the globe. The Parma, Italy-based food safety agency figures migration routes crossing the north-eastern and eastern EU borders are the…
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Number of illnesses from backyard flocks breaks record

By News Desk on October 20, 2017

It’s been a record year for so-called backyard flocks, and not in a good way. The live poultry are responsible for 10 Salmonella outbreaks in 2017 —  sickening more than 1,100 people across 48 states,…
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Backyard flock Salmonella victims triple, 1 dead; more expected

By Kelsey M. Mackin on August 22, 2017

So far this year, preschoolers account for a third of the 961 confirmed victims in a Salmonella outbreak that has turned deadly and been traced to backyard poultry flocks.

There had already been more confirmed…
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Salmonella victims from backyard flocks more than double

By News Desk on July 14, 2017

The number of people infected this year by Salmonella from contact with so-called backyard poultry flocks has more than doubled since June 1, with 790 victims now confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and…
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CDC fowl warning: Hundreds sickened by backyard flocks

By Coral Beach on June 2, 2017

More than a third of the 372 people infected with Salmonella from backyard flocks so far this year are children younger than 5 years old, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting eight…
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Make Mine Chocolate, others seek to make Easter safer for all

By Coral Beach on April 1, 2017

Public health officials warn against it. Animal welfare groups are opposed to it. Year after year it causes hundreds of human illnesses and agonizing deaths for baby chicks, ducks and rabbits. But every spring the…
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