The Centres for
Disease Control says 158 people got sick from bacteria spread by mail-order chicks
from a hatchery in Ohio.
Although nobody
died, 29 required hospital treatment. Sixty-five of them were children younger
than 10.
On average,
symptoms showed up three weeks after the mail-order chicks arrived. Some were
ducklings.
The report that
has just come out describes details of the situation that developed between
March and October of last year and involved cases from 30 states.
