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Nine sickened by salmonella after handling newly-hatched poultry

June 21, 2016 By Bill Werner

State health officials advise Minnesotans to wash their hands after handling baby chicks or other newly-hatched poultry including ducks, turkeys or pheasants — that after nine people become ill with salmonella in the last two-and-a-half months. State Health Department veterinarian Doctor Stacy Holzbauer says, keep food and drink out of animal areas.  She says people should “separate our living space from where the poultry live. We have our homes and they have their homes as well, and we don’t necessarily have to share them.”  Holzbauer says even healthy birds can have enough germs on their feathers or feet to make a person sick.  And she notes “the CDC recommends that kids under the age of five shouldn’t be handling poultry, just because they are so kind of hand-to-mouth…, and they’re also not the best at hand hygiene as well.”

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