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Offline CaveyUK

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Question about keeping chickens
« on: August 03, 2017, 03:28:56 pm »
Odd question perhaps, but my girlfriend is kinda fixed on the potential to keep a few chickens for egg production in the near future.

I'm not against this per se, but obviously the old 'Will this cause me to keel over and die' question raises it's head.

Looking on google, there are mainly old threads from 10yrs ago which warn about histoplasmosis and suchlike. I'd just be curious to know a modern take on this, given the additional knowledge and drug effectiveness we have now.

I'm >500 cd4's and UD for what it's worth. This move likely wouldn't be for another year anyway.
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Re: Question about keeping chickens
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2017, 03:44:32 pm »
Histoplasmosis fungus.

It happens to HIV negative people as well, farmers and stuff. Makes sense they have chickens and other poultry. HIV meds or being UD is not going to stop or prevent a fungus. So both you and your GF would always have some risk from keeping poultry, it depends on your immune system, can't really measure how intact that is. Higher CD4 levels is associated generally speaking with reduced risks but even with the more common infections studied its does not mean no risk. 

That said everything in life has risks, and fresh eggs are great :-)
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