Don’t hug or kiss birds in your backyard. A 28-state salmonella outbreak is sickening kids

MIAMI – An unusual salmonella outbreak has hit 28 states, running coast-to-coast with no true center, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak doesn’t involve food, but backyard birds such as chicks and ducklings. Of the 44 sickened people interviewed so far, the CDC said, 38 have had contact with such feathery animals. That’s not as unusual or perhaps as …