Ever gotten Salmonella from your reptiles?

[HypoPita]

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one, its the loneliest number since the number one
No is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Yes is the saddest experience you'll ever know
cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever know
one is the loneliest number even worst then two
yeah
its just no good anymore since you went away
now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you went away
since you went away
(one is the loneliest number since you've gone away)
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you've gone away
Its just no good anymore since you went away
now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you went away
since you went away

lol

LOL!!

I have never gotten it either, and I am messy, let them crawl on me and gimme kisses. I also have a very strong immune system. Just keep in mind though, for the people that are freaking out, we all carry strep and staff in our mouths. A small cut in your mouth could let millions of bacteria in, which can travel in your blood stream and get stuck in your heart. That is known as Bacterial Endocarditis. It destroys your valves, causing them to leak, and then you die.

Immune systems people, immune systems!! Take your vitamins!!!!

[Ginevive]

I have never gotten it from my snakes. I did visit a farm once, not too long ago;the place was a scummy place,with chicken waste on eeeeverything pretty-much. Not long afterward, I got a horrible upset/stomach/ill/wanted to die sickness that lasted a few days. I theoretically say that it was salmonella;not from any reptiles, though.

[Ginevive]

LOL!!

I have never gotten it either, and I am messy, let them crawl on me and gimme kisses. I also have a very strong immune system. Just keep in mind though, for the people that are freaking out, we all carry strep and staff in our mouths. A small cut in your mouth could let millions of bacteria in, which can travel in your blood stream and get stuck in your heart. That is known as Bacterial Endocarditis. It destroys your valves, causing them to leak, and then you die.

Immune systems people, immune systems!! Take your vitamins!!!!

Justlike Mono. Many people carry the Epstein-Barr virus, but never get sick. Kissing someone who's a carrier, could very-well lead you on a path that could lead to full-blown Mononucleosis, and eventually, debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Take it from me, I have it. (had actual Mono at age 18; chronic fatigue now.) I shouldn't have kissed the people that I kissed in high school., I guess... then again, anyone could be a carrier.. !

More for me and the other germophobes to be paranoid about.

[Oroborous]

Nope, and I kiss my herps to, lol!

[HypoPita]

Justlike Mono. Many people carry the Epstein-Barr virus, but never get sick. Kissing someone who's a carrier, could very-well lead you on a path that could lead to full-blown Mononucleosis, and eventually, debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Take it from me, I have it. (had actual Mono at age 18; chronic fatigue now.) I shouldn't have kissed the people that I kissed in high school., I guess... then again, anyone could be a carrier.. !

More for me and the other germophobes to be paranoid about.

<--- Chronic Fatige and Fibro.

Never had mono. Sure there is a connection?

[West Coast Jungle]

The big salmonila scare was from way back in the day(when I was a kid) you used to see 100's of red ear sliders, usually wild caughts, in fairs, amusment parks, and you name it. Kids used to win them all the time and take them home in a small bowl enclosure and they were very plentiful and cheap in petshops. Well most of them were kept in sleazy conditions in tubs with no filtration (gross) and conditions were breeding and spreading salmonela. Everyone blamed the reptiles when in fact it was the people harvesting them that were to blame. That is why we have laws on smaller turtles and torts, so kids cant put them in there mouths and contact salmonela.

It is always possible to get it from a herp but most likely from food than a pet especially one kept in a clean enviroment.

Thats why the poll is so skewed.

I have got poisoned from a burger but never from a herp

[Ginevive]

<--- Chronic Fatige and Fibro.

Never had mono. Sure there is a connection?

I don't think that Mono/epstein-barr is the only cause of CFS. I know that my friend's sister has fibro, and has never had mono, also.

diseases suck.

[Brewster320]

I don't know if anyones mentioned this yet but you can also get Salmonella from rodents and birds, not just reptiles. It just seems when poeple think about reptiles Salmonella is one of the first things that comes to mind. I like to tell people who complain about reptiles and salmonella you can get it from your pet hamster or parakeet also, it always throws them off.

[jglass38]

I would worry more about getting something from the little snotty nosed kids running around. Kids are germ farms!

I have A LOT of reptiles and have never gotten sick from them.

[Eventide]

I get "food poisoning" fairly regularly (maybe once a month?), so I've probably had salmonella before, but (1) I don't know for sure and (2) even if I did, I wouldn't have a clue as to whether it came from the reptiles or from food.

I let my reptiles crawl on my face if they like (I just close my mouth, hee hee). I don't kiss them, either, though I have been known to eat and handle reptiles at the same time. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen sometimes. I know the threat is there, which is why 99% of the time, I take the appropriate precautions. But if I get salmonella from my reptiles, it's my fault, so I'll just deal with it.