Mail-Order Chickens Trigger Salmonella Outbreak, CDC Says
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The urban chicken movement has unleashed an unwanted development: salmonella poisoning.
Baby chickens from a mail-order hatchery that supplies backyard flocks sickened at least 316 people in 43 states over eight years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.