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You can't fuck around with this stuff! Nature is not your friend!

Bacteria are lurking everywhere. :cirnoForReals: If you're careful, they won't get you from this sort of thing. :cirnoSmile:

"New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says"

From the CDC: "This outbreak strain has been linked to two hatcheries in past outbreaks, including one which is also linked to the poultry shipping material sample in the current outbreak."

My early Silent generation mother who grew up on a farm is a fanatic about food safety. Her generation didn't have antibiotics to save people from screwups so they were careful.

As far as I know she/we never screwed up before I left for college (that is, everyone in the household getting quickly sick at the same time, GI infections that went through the family had a timing that indicated serial passage from one member to others, like of norovirus or the like). And she passed that knowledge and habits on to my siblings and myself.

They grew grain, but of course raised chickens for the usual purposes plus providing a good meal for hired for harvest farm hands, it would have been ... impolite to sicken them on.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/salmonella-outbreak-linked-backyard-poultry-205036211.html

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks/mbandaka-05-01/investigation.html