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 rabbits are caused by this gift-giving tradition. However, this has done nothing to curb the
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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 wreaking havoc in my family’s backyard, there are serious humane and public health reasons to
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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 5 years old.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last reported on the outbreak
Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak now involves 1 death and 42 states; live poultry blamed
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 211 audits and other on-the-spot visits in EU member states and countries outside the region.
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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 most likely pathway for avian flu entering the continent.
In the United States, experts at
Continue Reading EFSA says wild birds spread avian flu to E.U. member states
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, killing one.
Although federal officials have concluded their investigations of the 10 outbreaks identified so
Continue Reading Number of illnesses from backyard flocks breaks record
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 infections related to backyard flocks by Aug. 11 this year than in all of 2016,
Continue Reading Backyard flock Salmonella victims triple, 1 dead; more expected
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 Prevention.
Almost a third of the victims, 31 percent, are children younger than 5 years
Continue Reading Salmonella victims from backyard flocks more than double
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 separate outbreaks across 47 states.
“These outbreaks are expected to continue for the next several
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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 practice is resurrected.
Giving live animals as Easter gifts has been a tradition for decades,
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