[TN-Bird] Peanuts not likely at fault for spike in Salmonella-killed birds

Peanuts not likely at fault for spike in Salmonella-killed birds
Robert Roos  News Editor
CIDRAP News
March 18, 2009

 
 
Salmonella infections have been killing more wild birds than usual in the US 
Southeast this winter, but the increase does not seem related to the nationwide 
human disease outbreak tied to tainted peanut products, according to federal 
wildlife scientists.
 
M. Kevin Keel, DVM, PhD, of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study 
at the University of Georgia in Athens said testing so far has shown that the 
birds have been dying of a different Salmonella strain than the one in the 
human outbreak.
 
"It is Salmonella Typhimurium, and we see outbreaks of this type in birds every 
year, but usually not to this extent," Keel told CIDRAP News. Salmonella 
Typhimurium is also the serotype involved in the human outbreak, but the bird 
strain does not match genetically with the human cases, he said.
 
"We did do some strain typing, and our preliminary data indicate no relation" 
to the strain involved in the human outbreak, said Keel, who supervises the 
diagnostic service for the ongoing wildlife study.
 
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