Key Resources

For Consumers

• Free Posters: Salmonella and Live Poultry
  • Animal Exhibits and Handwashing (Available in Spanish and French)
  • Salmonella and Baby Poultry (Available in Spanish and French)
• CDC.gov Features 
  • Risk of Human Salmonella Infections from Live Baby Poultry
  • Keeping Live Poultry
  • Stay Healthy at Animal Exhibits This Summer
• CDC Digital Press Kit: Multiple Multistate Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Linked to Live Poultry in Backyard Flocks
• CDC Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
• General Information: Salmonella
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People
• CDC Kidtastics Podcast
  • Why Parents Should Think Twice Before Giving Baby Birds to Young Children for Easter [PODCAST – 4:09 minutes]

For Mail-Order Hatcheries and Feed Stores that Sell or Display Live Poultry

• Free Posters: Salmonella and Live Poultry
  • Animal Exhibits and Handwashing (Available in Spanish and French)
  • Salmonella and Baby Poultry (Available in Spanish and French)
• CDC.gov Features 
  • Risk of Human Salmonella Infections from Live Baby Poultry
  • Keeping Live Poultry
  • Stay Healthy at Animal Exhibits This Summer
• USDA National Poultry Improvement Plan
• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2011
  • Appendix C: Hand-Washing Recommendations to Reduce Disease Transmission from Animals in Public Settings
• CDC Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
• General Information: Salmonella
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People

For Public Health Professionals

• Free Posters: Salmonella and Live Poultry
  • Animal Exhibits and Handwashing (Available in Spanish and French)
  • Salmonella and Baby Poultry (Available in Spanish and French)
• CDC.gov Features 
  • Risk of Human Salmonella Infections from Live Baby Poultry
  • Keeping Live Poultry
  • Stay Healthy at Animal Exhibits This Summer
• CDC Digital Press Kit: Multiple Multistate Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Linked to Live Poultry in Backyard Flocks
• CDC Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
• General Information: Salmonella
• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2011
  • Appendix C: Hand-Washing Recommendations to Reduce Disease Transmission from Animals in Public Settings
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People
• CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
  • Notes from the Field: Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infantis, Newport, and Lille Infections Linked to Live Poultry from a Single Mail-Order Hatchery in Ohio—March–September, 2012
  • Notes from the Field: Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Altona and Johannesburg Infections Linked to Chicks and Ducklings from a Mail-Order Hatchery—United States, February–October 2011
  • Multistate Outbreaks of Salmonella Infections Associated with Live Poultry—United States, 2007
  • Three Outbreaks of Salmonellosis Associated with Baby Poultry from Three Hatcheries—United States, 2006
  • Salmonella Serotype Montevideo Infections Associated with Chicks—Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, Spring 1995 and 1996

Selected Announcements for Salmonella Outbreaks Linked to Live Poultry

• Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Live Poultry
• Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella Infections Linked to Live Poultry in Backyard Flocks
• Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella Altona and Salmonella Johannesburg Infections Linked to Chicks and Ducklings