Backyard Chicken Coops Can Pose Viral Threat

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Chickens cooped up in backyards can be breeding grounds for viruses that pose a serious public health threat, one expert warns.

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"As a researcher who studies pathogen movement along different groups, I see backyard chickens as a potential interface where pathogens can spill over into wild birds, or vice versa, and even into people," Hernandez said in a university news release. Bird flu outbreaks could spread to humans, something that's on scientists' minds in a year dominated by a global pandemic of coronavirus. Most experts believe that SARS-CoV-2 originated from an animal-to-human"spillover" event occurring somewhere in China.

"It can become especially dangerous if you mix little chickens with little people — young chickens that are shedding a lot of salmonella with small kids that don't have the best hygiene practices," she said.Most people who get salmonella infection have symptoms such as diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, but about 26,500 Americans are hospitalized due to these infections and 420 die every year.

 

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