CDC Issues Updated Guidance to Help Prevent Spread of Flu at Agricultural Fairs | NCIRD | CDC
- Don’t take toys, pacifiers, cups, bottles, strollers, or similar items into the animal areas.
- Don’t eat, drink, or touch, or put anything in your mouth or touch your eyes while in animal areas (barns, show arenas).
- Wash your hands often with soap and running water after touching animals, animal associated equipment, or their environments (like a barn or enclosure). If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
- Where possible, avoid direct contact with pigs, poultry, cattle, and other animals that look or act ill. (Direct physical contact with the animal includes touching, holding, kissing, being bitten, licked, and scratched.)
- Another article went as far to say avoid all animal barns particularly the poultry.
Thank God I grew up in a time when going to the fair was carefree and the only worry was you eat too much. The innocence of living seems dimmed…
