Despite years of warnings, 2020 saw more backyard poultry-related illnesses than any previous year. By Mike Pomranz Some lessons you only need to learn once. Burn your hand on the stove and you don't touch it again. Other pieces of advice need to be repeatedly drilled into people's heads. Maybe they think the gains outweigh the risk. Maybe they don't trust the messenger. Or maybe their backyard chickens are just so darn cute they can't resist showing their affection with snuggles and kisses. But seriously, for your own health, maybe consider letting your chickens just go about their business. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—which, for the record, also has much bigger fish to fry thanks to that whole global pandemic thing—issued an investigation notice on a salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry. And, once again, the government agency had to explicitly stress, "Don't kiss or snuggle backyard poultry, and don'
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