Sound advice , CDC ! But , uh , just why did you guys feel the need to issue this word of advice in the first place ?
It ’s because we ’re in the midst of a series of modest Salmonella eruption , with just under 200 case reported thus far . A fistful of these were traced back to glacial chicken , but the huge absolute majority were from live birds , leading the CDC ( as is its wont ) to put out aseriesofpamphletson how to avoid this latest threat .
At first , the advice is pretty standard : Wash your men after you strip a chicken coop ! Be sure to buy healthy chickens ! But then , things get a piffling weird :
Many inauspicious people in these outbreaks report bringing the live fowl into their habitation , and others reported kissing or cuddling with the lively poultry . These behaviour increase a person ’s peril of a Salmonella transmission .
… okay . Of course , the whole affair becomes a little clearer when you read a little further on who is getting wan and find that the former outbreak is focus on mostly in backyard and hobby farms .
Look , mass , I know you think that little HENry VIII and Chick Corea , Jr. are just your funny , feathery pets , but they are not . They are tiny , disease - ride dinosaur , who have spent the last several years watching you kidnap , and then eat , their baby . You ’re not friends . You ’re scarce not enemy .
So — in the wise to words of the CDC — don’t kiss your chickens . Do n’t bring them into the planetary house to cling out . And do n’t ever attempt to cuddle with them . And , if you do , expect that a subject of salmonella just might be on its way .
Image : Fotokon / Shutterstock .
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