Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal, CDC reports
The popular trend of raising backyard chickens is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, some of them fatal, U.S. health officials say.
Source: CBC | Health - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Backyard chicken trend turns deadly
Popular trend of raising backyard chickens in U.S. cities and suburbs brings a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, at least one of them fatal
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal
Backyard chickens bring little-known risk of disease; CDC says infections have spiked
Source: ABC News: Health - October 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Chicken food poisoning levels falling
The bug campylobacter, present in some chickens, is the leading cause of food poisoning in the UK.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

South Sudan: Endless Cycles of Displacement Continue Along the Northern Frontier
October 17, 2017Jez Goeldi knew something was wrong when the chaotic buzz of the nearby market suddenly disappeared, leaving him and his colleagues engulfed by an eerie silence. The team was inside the Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facility in Aburoc, in the White Nile region of South Sudan. "The donkeys and chickens were gone, and that told me that the population had yet again been forced to flee," says Goeldi, the 36-year-old deputy logistics coordinator for MSF.
Source: MSF News - October 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news

Italy culls birds after five H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in October
ROME (Reuters) - Italy has had five outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu in farms the central and northern parts of the country since the start of the month and about 880,000 chickens, ducks and turkeys will be culled, officials said on Wednesday.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Man, 35, gets his wife pregnant with ‘SUPER SPERM’
EXCLUSIVE: George Nicorici, from Orpington, Kent, was advised by doctors to take a L-Carnitine sachet twice a day when sperm tests showed he was depleted of swimmers.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Man gets his wife pregnant with ‘super sperm’ supplement
EXCLUSIVE: George Nicorici, from Orpington, Kent, was advised by doctors to take a L-Carnitine sachet twice a day when sperm tests showed he was depleted of swimmers.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Chickens a Sentinel Species for West Nile
(MedPage Today) -- Researchers in California using domesticated fowl to track viral spread
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 30, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Investors renew push to get Sanderson Farms to cut antibiotic use
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sanderson Farms Inc shareholders have filed another proposal aimed at convincing the third-largest U.S. poultry producer to stop giving medically important antibiotics to healthy chickens for disease prevention.
Source: Reuters: Health - September 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Why You Should Think Twice About Playing With Puppies in a Pet Store
This article originally appeared on Health.com
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanda MacMillan / Health Tags: Uncategorized animals campylobacter campylobacter outbreak Dog Dogs health risks pet diseases pet store outbreak Petland Pets public health puppies puppy puppy outbreak Source Type: news

Can you solve it? Try your cluck at these chicken problems
Two thousand years of fowl play has resulted in some truly eggcellent puzzlesHi guzzlers,Today I ’ve selected four puzzles about chickens, an animal which appears with curious frequency in the history of puzzles.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 11, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Arithmetic puzzles Logic puzzles Science Source Type: news

Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella
More than 900 people have contracted it from backyard poultry this year — the highest number ever — and the trend is expected to continue.
Source: NYT Health - September 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ANERI PATTANI Tags: Salmonella (Bacteria) Poultry Chickens Local Food Source Type: news

Pet turtles blamed for multistate salmonella outbreak
First the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned us not to kiss or costume our chickens, now the agency is telling us not to pet or give turtles as gifts.
Source: CNN.com - Health - August 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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