Posts Tagged ‘50 million’

admin - Mail-order chicks infecting children with salmonella, officials warn (6/6/2012)

(Credit:istockphoto) (CBS/AP) Mail-order chicks and ducklings might make for cute Easter gifts, but health officials are warning that kids are getting sick from them. A single mail-order hatchery in the western U.S. has been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella since 2004, a new study shows. Diamond dog food salmonella recall expandsSalmonella: 10 [...]

admin - Hundreds of US salmonella cases tied to live, mail-order chicks; backyard farming blamed (5/31/2012)

ATLANTA – those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children’s Easter baskets and backyard farms have been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella in the U.S. — mostly in youngsters — since 2004. An estimated 50 million live poultry are sold through the mail each year in the United States in a [...]

WNEM TV 5 – Saginaw, Flint, Michigan News and WeatherIn U.S., salmonella is on the rise while E. coli retreats

By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — as a deadly new strain of E. coli in Europe makes headlines, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that salmonella, not E. coli, remains the biggest foodborne health threat to Americans. In fact, while rates of several types of foodborne illness — including E. coli — [...]

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