Don't kiss your chickens, the CDC says. Please don't
Don't do it. Please don't do it.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Salmonella tied to backyard poultry flocks surpasses 1,000 cases
Raising chickens at home is the top cause of infection blamed for 1,003 illnesses in 49 states, including two deaths
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - September 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Experts Warn of Mosquito-Borne Brain Infection in Florida
MONDAY, July 29, 2019 -- There is an increased risk for a mosquito-borne virus that causes brain infection and swelling, Florida health officials warn. Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has been detected in several sentinel chickens, according to...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 29, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Uganda: Smart System Detects Diseases
[Monitor] Farmers can save on production costs, detect diseases and know the output of individual chickens in real time via mobile telephone by installing smart technology in poultry cages.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 29, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Two dead and 768 people sickened across 48 states from salmonella outbreak
A salmonella outbreak linked to backyard chickens and ducklings across 48 states has sickened 768 people and left two dead. So far, 122 people have been hospitalized.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Long live the long-limbed African chicken
(Washington University in St. Louis) For generations, household farmers in the Horn of Africa have selectively chosen chickens with certain traits that make them more appealing. Some choices are driven by the farmers' traditional courtship rituals; others are guided by more mundane concerns, such as taste and disease resistance. The result is the development of a genetically distinct African chicken -- one with longer, meatier legs, according to new research . But that 3,000-year-old local breed type is threatened by the introduction of commercial cluckers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Infectious Diseases A--Z: Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard chickens
Outbreaks of salmonella infections are being linked to contact with an increase in backyard chickens, ducks and other poultry, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Salmonella is a bacteria that is often present in the intestinal tract or in the GI tract," says Dr. Summer Allen, a family medicine physician at [...]
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - July 7, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

A solarium for hens? How to increase the vitamin D content of eggs
(Martin-Luther-Universit ä t Halle-Wittenberg) Many people suffer from a vitamin D deficiency. This can result in brittle bones and an increased risk of respiratory diseases. Chicken eggs are a natural source of vitamin D and one way to, at least partially, compensate for this deficiency. A team of nutritionists and agricultural scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has found a new way to further increase the vitamin D content of eggs: by exposing chickens to UV light.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 24, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Image of the Day: Phantom Limbs
Researchers study how oxygen around an embryo helps shape the way feet and digits form in amphibians and chickens.
Source: The Scientist - June 17, 2019 Category: Science Tags: Image of the Day Source Type: news

CDC: Backyard poultry-related salmonella cases cross 200
Since May, 227 additional people have reported contracting salmonella from pet chickens, pulling the up the total number of cases to 279, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - June 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Which supermarket chickens carry the most bacteria?
One in 17 chickens sold in Tesco contains the highest level of campylobacter, which is the most common cause of food poisoning. Lidl had the lowest amount of contaminated poultry of the top UK supermarkets.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health Highlights: June 14, 2019
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: More Sickened by Salmonella From Backyard Poultry Having chickens or ducks in your yard might carry salmonella dangers, the U.S. Centers for...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Researchers find genes that could help create more resilient chickens
(Penn State) An international team of scientists, led by Penn State researchers, have identified genes that may help farmers, especially ones in low- and middle-income countries, breed chickens that can resist one of the biggest disease threats facing poultry today.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 14, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Animal crackers: inside the world's most madcap menagerie
With its Frankenstein fauna and cosmopolitan chickens, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen ’s eco-park puts the perverse into biodiversityA huge steel cage pokes up through the trees on the edge of Genk in eastern Belgium. It emerges from a long, dark brick building that has the fortified look of a high-security laboratory. Through narrow windows, you can make out the inanimate bodies of pigs, chickens and strange winged creatures, lit by eerie neon lights, while a symphony of exotic squawks emanates from an aviary beyond. Hidden out here on the edge of a forest, it looks like some secret facility for developing future speci...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 10, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Wainwright Tags: Installation Architecture Biodiversity Museums Culture Belgium Animals Farm animals Genetics Art Art and design Sculpture Environment World news Zoology Zoos Science Europe Source Type: news

Can Gene Editing Stop The Bird Flu? Here Is The Latest With Chickens
This study shows how CRISPR gene editing can make chicken cells resistant to the avian influenza virus.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 5, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Contributor Source Type: news

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