Stop Kissing and Snuggling Chickens, C.D.C. Says After Salmonella Outbreak
More than 160 illnesses and dozens of hospitalizations have been reported across 43 states, officials said. “These are not house pets and a lot of people confuse that,” a poultry educator said.
Source: NYT Health - May 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Derrick Bryson Taylor Tags: Salmonella (Bacteria) Chickens Hygiene and Cleanliness Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Poultry Content Type: Service Birds Source Type: news

Poultry Industry Faces Crisis with Worker Shortage
In the biggest sector of Arkansas’ biggest industry, the mission these days is not counting your chickens, but counting your workers.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - May 24, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Salmonella: CDC urges Americans not to kiss chickens amid outbreak
The US public health agency asks people to be careful around live poultry after a multi-state outbreak.
Source: Reuters: Health - May 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Backyard chickens, rabbits, soybeans can meet household protein demand
(Michigan Technological University) In 2020, stores sold out of garden seed, coops and rabbit cages. Meat shortages led many to wonder what to eat for protein when supply chains are disrupted and some people turned to gathering eggs, raising animals and growing their own food. A team from Michigan Tech and the University of Alaska assessed backyard protein sources: They looked at how a typical household with a typical backyard can raise chickens, rabbits or soybeans to meet its protein needs.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UMD researchers study metabolism and liver function in embryonic chickens and hatchlings
(University of Maryland) University of Maryland is improving poultry production and welfare. During their first week, chickens undergo a metabolic switch from the fat-rich diet embryos grow in to a high carbohydrate diet. This is a natural transition in chicks, whereas a high fat diet in humans leads to metabolic consequences such as fatty liver disease and diabetes. Researchers hope to gain insights into how the liver works to help prevent metabolic disease in animals and humans.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 6, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?
When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one tasked with the job of describing the Before Times in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Before Lake Baringo started to rise, before it flooded and stole everything he knew. “At the beginning, we just thought it was a bad rainy season, that the water would recede when the dry season came. It didn’t,” he says ruefully, peering over the edge of his motorized canoe at what used to be houses below the milky brown waters. Over the past decade, an unprecedent...
Source: TIME: Science - April 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker/Kampi Ya Samaki, Kenya Tags: Uncategorized climate change feature Magazine TIME 2030 Source Type: news

A New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans. So Far, It ' s Not a Problem
Covid fuels the current virus pandemic, but the world is full of flu viruses waiting in the wings. And they keep changing unpredictably.
Source: NYT Health - April 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Gorman Tags: Avian Influenza Birds Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Agriculture and Farming Chickens World Health Organization Lucey, Daniel R Astrakhan (Russia) your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news

Chickens and pigs with integrated genetic scissors
(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Genetically engineered animals provide important insights into the molecular basis of health and disease. Research has focused mainly on genetically modified mice, although other species, such as pigs, are more similar to human physiology. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now generated chickens and pigs in which target genes in desired organs can be efficiently altered.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - April 20, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Rotisserie chickens are tasty. Are they healthy, too?
Some are enhanced with undesirable ingredients — such as natural flavors, gums and carrageenan — and troubling amounts of sodium.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Santanachote Source Type: news

Scientists developed a safe and cheap technology of disinfection of the packed eggs
(Ural Federal University) Researchers have developed an inexpensive, safe, and reliable packed eggs surface disinfection technology. This technology helps to kill bacteria, including salmonella, on eggshells. Also, it allows growing broiler chickens with strong immunity to viral diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 2, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

You don’t have to eat contaminated meals to get food poisoning
Some surprising sources of dangerous bacteria include backyard chickens, pet turtles and even other people.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Janet Lee Source Type: news

Backyard Chicken Coops Pose Threat of ' Viral Spillover ' to People
FRIDAY, March 12, 2021 -- Raising chickens in your backyard— a popular trend during the COVID-19 pandemic— holds risks that can come home to roost in an unwelcome way. It ' s already well known that poultry can spread the salmonella...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Under the microscope: Countdown host and former Apprentice star Nick Hewer
Nick Hewer, 77, said he has not been sleeping well during lockdown but revealed he has discovered the joy of cooked breakfasts in the last year, eating eggs laid by his chickens.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Covid UK: Boris Johnson says pubgoers WON'T need 'vaccine passport'
During a visit to a community vaccination centre in Orpington, South East London, today, Mr Johnson admitted the jab passports were being looked at for international travel.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bankrupt chicken farmers banned for cruelty running aged care homes
Two brothers banned from working in the poultry industry for a total of 17 years after starving more than a million chickens were able...
Source: Reuters: Health - February 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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