Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella Infections Linked to Live Poultry in Backyard Flocks
date:Oct 29, 2012
ania (16), Rhode Island (2), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (11), Texas (2), Virginia (9), Vermont (3), and West Virginia (11).

34% of ill persons were hospitalized. Two deaths were reported.

33% of ill persons were children 10 years of age or younger.

Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback findings linked this outbreak of human Salmonella infections to contact with live poultry from Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Ohio.

Mail-order hatcheries, agricultural feed stores, and others that sell or displ
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