742. Stirring Your Coffee With "Pickle" the Barista Bird Daily

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting a parrot stir you coffee with a spoon every day. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Pickle the barista birb loves to stir my coffee every morning : r/aww Salmonella | Cornell Wildlife Health Lab Psittacosis (Ornithosis) fact sheet Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020–2021 - Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC Salmonella pet birds - Google Scholar Full article: Zoonotic potential and prevalence of Salmonella serovars isolated from pets Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Salmonella spp. in Fecal Samples of Pet Birds | Avian Diseases Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Salmonella spp. in Pet Mammals, Reptiles, Fish Aquarium Water, and Birds in Trinidad - Seepersadsingh - 2003 - Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B - Wiley Online Library Salmonella Newport outbreak in Brazilian parrots: confiscated birds from the illegal pet trade as possible zoonotic sources - Saidenberg - 2021 - Environmental Microbiology Reports - Wiley Online Library Zoonoses in pet birds: review and perspectives | Veterinary Research  

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Risky or Not is a short podcast from Professor Ben Chapman from North Carolina State University, and Dr. Don Schaffner from Rutgers University. Dr. Don and Professor Chapman promise to do their best not to waffle, dither, dissemble or equivocate, and to give straight up answers about whether something is risky or not.