Federal health officials report that at least 34 people across thirteen states have been infected with salmonella linked to contact with backyard poultry.
They also note that some of these cases involved strains of salmonella that were resistant to antibiotics.
Typically you ingest it off of either food or you’re touching kind of contaminated objects, Dr. Matthew Hitchcock tell us.
Dr. Matthew Hitchcock of Hitchcock Family Medicine says the bacteria can spread from backyard poultry to humans through direct contact with the birds or their environment…