Selected Multistate Outbreak Investigations Linked to Animals, Animal Products, and Animal Events
Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals
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When two or more people get the same illness from the same pet or other animal, the event is called a zoonotic outbreak. Public health officials investigate outbreaks to control them, so more people do not get sick in the outbreak, and to learn how to prevent similar outbreaks from happening in the future.
Below are select summaries of outbreaks of human infections linked to contact with the following animals and animal products:
List of Selected Outbreak Investigations, by Year
- Pet Store Puppies – Campylobacter Infections
- Pet Turtles – Salmonella Agbeni Infections
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Infections
- Dairy Bull Calves – Salmonella Heidelberg
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Muenster, Salmonella Hadar, Salmonella Indiana, Salmonella Mbandaka, Salmonella Infantis, and Salmonella Braenderup
- Small Turtles – Salmonella Sandiego, and Salmonella Poona
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Hadar, Salmonella Indiana,and Salmonella Muenchen
- Pet Crested Geckos – Salmonella Muenchen
- Frozen Feeder Rodents – Salmonella Typhimurium
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Infantis and Salmonella Newport
- Pet Bearded Dragons – Salmonella Cotham
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Typhimurium
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Lille, Salmonella Newport, and Salmonella Mbandaka
- Small Turtles – Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona
- Hedgehogs – Salmonella Typhimurium
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Hadar
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Montevideo
- Live Poultry – Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Newport, and Salmonella Lille
- Dry Dog Food – Salmonella Infantis
- Small Turtles – Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona
- Water Frogs – Salmonella Typhimurium
- Chicks and Ducklings – Salmonella Altona and Salmonella Johannesburg
- Frozen Rodents – Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:-
- Dry Pet Food – Salmonella Schwarzengrund
- Page last reviewed: July 1, 2015
- Page last updated: October 2, 2017
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