{"id":120,"date":"2007-06-04T23:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=120"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:02","slug":"can-i-safely-keep-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/120","title":{"rendered":"Can I safely keep chickens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You ask an interesting question and this isn&#8217;t something I know the answer to directly.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the concerns about health and keeping animals relate to how strong your immune system is. For people whose CD4 count is over 350, or over 500 cells\/mm3, especially if they are taking ARV drugs, may make any risk similar to HIV-negative people.<\/p>\n<p>Taking care when cleaning chicken coops by wearing gloves and protective clothing, and washing after contact with your chickens, together with a caution about histoplasmosis, and a recommendation to talk to your doctor from the links below, seems good advice.<\/p>\n<p>A quick google search for &#8216;hiv risk pet chicken&#8217; found the following links that you use for further information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.lsu.edu\/high_risk.htm\">Veterinary site with information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/familydoctor.org\/online\/famdocen\/home\/common\/sexinfections\/hiv\/248.html\">Family doctor site, cautioning mainly about regions where histoplasmosis is prevalent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthypets\/animals\/birds.htm\">CDC link page with information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthypets\/pdf\/intown_flocks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC recommendations for in-town chickens PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can i safely keep chickens being HIV-positive, by taking precautions like wearing a mask and gloves whilst cleaning out coop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}