Vaccine shows promise against widespread chicken disease
(University of Edinburgh) A new vaccine strategy could offer protection to millions of chickens threatened by a serious respiratory disease, research shows.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 23, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to raw chicken has sickened 92 people in 29 states
A new report from the CDC says this strain of salmonella is linked to raw chicken pet food, raw chicken products and live chickens, and is resistant to at least 13 antibiotics used to treat the infection.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Not Just For Cows Anymore: New Cottonseed Is Safe For People To Eat
Cottonseed is full of protein but toxic to humans and most animals. The USDA has approved a genetically engineered cotton with edible seeds. They could eventually feed chickens, fish — or even people.(Image credit: Courtesy of Lacey Roberts/Texas A&M University)
Source: NPR Health and Science - October 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Charles Source Type: news

Drug-Resistant Salmonella From Chicken Sickens Dozens, Including 9 In Mass.
(CNN) — At least 92 people in 29 states have been infected with a strain of multidrug-resistant salmonella after coming into contact with a variety of raw chicken products, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Twenty-one of the sick patients have been hospitalized, though no deaths have been reported. The CDC says nine people in Massachusetts have reported getting sick. The source of the raw chicken is unclear from lab tests, and no single common supplier has been identified. The strain has shown up in samples from a variety of raw chicken products including pet food, chicken pieces, grou...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Local TV SALMONELLA Source Type: news

Severe human infection with a novel avian-origin influenza A(H7N4) virus
(Science China Press) Avian influenza virus (AIV) is always the threat to human due to its pandemic potential. Herein, a novel reassortant AIV, influenza A(H7N4) virus, has been identified. The virus originated from wild bird AIVs, infected backyard chickens and ducks, and cause a severe human infection. Researchers firstly conducted a comprehensive investigation on this case, confirming the viral infection and the transmission route. Early identification and response interrupted the spread of this novel virus.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 31, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Why backyard chickens are a health risk
"Always wash your hands after handling live poultry." That's the reminder from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week due to another outbreak of salmonella from backyard chickens.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Backyard Chickens Sicken People In 44 States
(CBS News) — Live poultry in backyard flocks are linked to several multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections that have now sickened 212 people in 44 states, federal health officials warned Monday. One case has been reported in Massachusetts. The most recent illnesses began on June 21, with 88 of the cases reported in the last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, said in an advisory. The federal agency is working with multiple states in investigating several outbreaks of salmonella infections linked to contact with live poultry in backyard flocks, it said. A half-dozen strains of salmone...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - July 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News chickens Local TV SALMONELLA Source Type: news

Why Dogs and Humans Love Each Other More Than Anyone Else
This is excerpted from TIME How Dogs Think: Inside the Canine Mind, now available at retailers and on Amazon. You speak dog better than you think you do. You may not be fluent; that would require actually being a dog. But if you went to live in a dogs-only world, you’d be pretty good at understanding what they’re saying. You can tell a nervous yip from a menacing growl, a bark that says hello from a bark that says get lost. You can read the body language that says happy, that says sad, that says tired, that says scared, that says Please, please, please play with me right now! Think that’s not a big deal?...
Source: TIME: Science - July 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized onetime psychology Source Type: news

Pizza Hut pledges to drop some chicken antibiotics by 2022
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yum Brand Inc's Pizza Hut chain will fully phase out chickens raised with certain antibiotics in its U.S. restaurants by 2022, in the latest push by a major restaurant chain to follow healthier food practices.
Source: Reuters: Health - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

The Redomestication of Wolves
On landscapes around the world, environmental change is bringing people and large carnivores together--but the union is not without its problems. Human-wildlife conflict is on the rise as development continues unabated and apex predators begin to reoccupy their former ranges. Further complicating matters, many of these species are now reliant on anthropogenic, or human, foods, including livestock, livestock and other ungulate carcasses, and garbage. Writing in BioScience, Thomas Newsome, of Deakin University and the University of Sydney, and his colleagues use gray wolves and other large predators as case studies to explo...
Source: BioScience Press Releases - June 12, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Risk of pecking injury of the eye when children and chickens roam together - Ahmadzadeh A, Larsen M, Jacobsen N, Soliman W.
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Source: SafetyLit - June 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Researchers Discover Deadly New Pig Virus That Could Spread to Humans
(KDKA/CBS Local) – Researchers say they have identified a new pig virus that could be a threat to humans. The virus was found to easily make its way into laboratory-cultured cells of humans and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about potential outbreaks in people. Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus identified as porcine deltacoronavirus. Their study appears online in the journal PNAS. Scientists say the virus was first discovered in pigs in China in 2012. It was first detected in the United States in 2014 during...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Local TV talkers Source Type: news

Pig virus could pose potentially lethal threat to human populations
A Sars-like vomiting bug that infects pigs has been shown to jump between species including chickens, cats and humans, Ohio State University researchers have found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pig virus which is potential threat to humans has...
A Sars-like vomiting bug that infects pigs has been shown to jump between species including chickens, cats and humans, Ohio State University researchers have found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Flockmate or loner? Identifying the genes behind sociality in chickens
(Link ö ping University) Five genes that affect sociality-related behavior in chickens have been identified by researchers at Link ö ping University in Sweden. Several of the genes have been previously linked to nervous system function or behavior. The new study, which is published in Genetics, is the first that assigns these genes a role in sociality.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 3, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

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