Key Resources

For Consumers

• Free Posters: Salmonella and Live Poultry
  • Reducing Your Risk of a Salmonella Infection from Contact with Live Baby Poultry (Also available in Spanish and French and in multiple sizes)
  • Have a Backyard Flock? Don’t Wing It [PDF – 662 KB]
  • Don’t Play Chicken with Your Health [PDF – 690 KB]
  • Handwashing at Animal Exhibits (Also 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 Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People
• General Information: Salmonella
• 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
  • Reducing Your Risk of a Salmonella Infection from Contact with Live Baby Poultry (Also available in Spanish and French and in multiple sizes)
  • Have a Backyard Flock? Don’t Wing It [PDF – 662 KB]
  • Don’t Play Chicken with Your Health [PDF – 690 KB]
  • Handwashing at Animal Exhibits (Also 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
  • Best Management Practices Handbook: A Guide to the Mitigation of Salmonella Contamination at Poultry Hatcheries
• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2013
• CDC Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People
• General Information: Salmonella

For Public Health Professionals

• Free Posters: Salmonella and Live Poultry
  • Reducing Your Risk of a Salmonella Infection from Contact with Live Baby Poultry (Also available in Spanish and French and in multiple sizes)
  • Have a Backyard Flock? Don’t Wing It [PDF – 662 KB]
  • Don’t Play Chicken with Your Health [PDF – 690 KB]
  • Handwashing at Animal Exhibits (Also 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
• CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People
• General Information: Salmonella
• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2013
• Backyard Poultry Flocks and Salmonellosis: A Recurring, Yet Preventable Public Health Challenge (Clinical Infectious Diseases)
• 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