Peacocks and turkeys at petting farm test positive for Salmonella in Malta

Normally we’re going on and on and on about how some petting zoo outbreak made a bunch of kids sick and the operators should have known better.

We’ve got a whole table of the outbreaks at at http://bites.ksu.edu/petting-zoos-outbreaks.

But in a story of prevention, Malta Today reports the government has closed down the peacock-new-zealand_10933_990x742birds section at the Petting Farm in Ta’ Qali after peacocks and turkeys tested positive to Salmonella Enteritidis.

The analysis was carried out by the Veterinary Department as part of its process to certify that no danger exists when persons come into direct contact with the birds.

The parliamentary secretariat for agriculture said the section will be reopened once the area has been disinfected and further tests would result in the negative. 

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