CDC warns of drug-resistant salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry

Across multiple American states, at least 34 people — most of them children — have fallen ill with a drug-resistant strain of salmonella traced to backyard poultry, a pastime that has quietly woven itself into the fabric of suburban and urban life. The CDC's confirmation of this outbreak sits at the intersection of two slow-moving crises: the rise of antibiotic resistance and the growing intimacy between households and the animals they keep. That the bacteria resist standard treatment is not merely a medical complication — it is a signal that the choices made in agriculture and medicine accumu