State and local health departments
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Routinely ask about live poultry contact during the week prior to illness onset on state enteric questionnaires.
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When patients report live poultry contact interview patients with the live poultry supplemental questionnaire.
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If a patient reports an agricultural feed store as the purchase location for their live poultry then interview the feed store with the feed store information section of the live poultry supplemental questionnaire.
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Inform agricultural feed stores about the risk of Salmonella infection due to contact with live poultry. A feed store letter template is available.
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Provide Salmonella education to agricultural feed stores for employee and consumer education.
Mail-order hatcheries
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Consult with a poultry veterinarian to customize interventions.
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Implement strict biosecurity practices including:
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Cleaning and disinfection protocols
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Ventilation and structural improvements
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Enhanced pest control
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Improved husbandry
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Employee movement and work flow controls
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Implement vaccination of all birds at the facility.
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Consider monthly environmental sampling and testing for regular Salmonella monitoring.
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Include Salmonella educational posters with each shipment of baby poultry and display educational materials on your website, price sheet, and other relevant materials that are shared with customers.
Agricultural feed stores
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Distribute Salmonella educational materials to all customers buying live poultry.
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Hang Salmonella educational posters in clear view.
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Keep live poultry out of reach of customers.
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Routinely clean and disinfect live poultry display areas, especially when new poultry are added to the display.
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Offer hand washing stations or hand sanitizer next to live poultry displays.
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Tell customers to wash hands right after leaving the live poultry display area.
Health professionals (especially pediatricians and veterinarians)
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Educate patients/clients about the risk of Salmonella infection due to animal contact, including direct and indirect contact with live poultry.
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Distribute educational materials to patients/clients and inform patients/clients about the consumer recommendations posted on the CDC website.
Consumers
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Wash your hands right after touching live poultry, or after contacting anything in the area where they live and roam.
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Do not let children younger than 5 years of age, older adults, and people with weak immune systems handle live poultry.
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Do not let live poultry inside the house.
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Clean any equipment or materials associated with raising or caring for live poultry outside the house, in order to prevent cross-contamination indoors.
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Do not snuggle or kiss live poultry.
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Do not touch your mouth, eat, or drink around live poultry.
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