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CDC Offers Tips to Owners of Backyard Flocks: How to Reduce the Chance of Salmonella Infection
Live poultry, such as chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys, often carry germs such as Salmonella. After you touch a bird, or anything in the area where birds live and roam, wash your hands so you don’t get sick! Read more at the CDC’s Keeping Backyard Poultry web page.