New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

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FILE - This 2009 electron microscope representation provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a ample radical of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a axenic culture. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File) (Janice Haney Carr, http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/ CDC - National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED); Salmonella)

NEW YORK – A caller salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened astatine slightest 7 radical successful six states, wellness officials said Monday.

Two cases were identified successful Missouri, and 1 each successful Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

People got sick successful February and March of this year, the CDC said. They each had the aforesaid strain of salmonella — a mentation that has been traced to hatcheries successful the past. The probe is continuing, wellness officials said.

Salmonella bacteria origin astir 1.35 cardinal infections successful the United States each year, and caller outbreaks person been tied to sources specified arsenic cucumbers, eggs, unpasteurized milk, caller basil, geckos and favored bearded dragons.

But 1 interest is that chickens and different backyard poultry tin transportation salmonella bacteria adjacent if they look steadfast and clean. A backyard poultry-associated outbreak that ended past twelvemonth was tied to 470 cases dispersed crossed 48 states, including 1 death.

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