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Several posters dismiss the potential of their reptile pets to convey
salmonella infection to humans by comparing the situation to that 
found in poultry  and polutry eggs. Poultry is indeed notorious in its
role of conveying salmonella to humans.  However you cannot really
compare the two.  Salmonella from poultry and eggs comes as a result of
two things: eating improperly cooked meat or eggs or improperly 
handling meat in the kitchen (not maintaining separate work space for
clean versus raw meat).  Salmonella infection from reptiles comes 
from handling our pets and working on or cleaning out their enclosures.
Don't make the mistake of comparing two things which really can't be
compared (the old apples versus oranges argument). Unless you are
talking about killing and eating herptile meat, these are two entirely
different issues. 

Steve Grenard
grenard@herpmed.com


URL for snakebite emergency page:

http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/snbite.htm