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  • 11-15-2015, 04:08 PM
    CynicalWolf
    Update on Belle and question on diseases
    Hey guys! Just wanted to stop in and give a little update on Belle since we normally only post when looking for help. Belles doing fantastic. She shed the other day, it wasn't in a full piece but two and she just had a little bit on her tail we had to help her with. She looks a lot better and shes back to her active self and ate today! I haven't gotten any pictures of her since she shed, but she's around the same color a little lighter and a lot smoother and some of the little indents and what not we noticed before are now gone.


    Now, I was curious. I'm a university student and I'm writing a paper on a national park where one of the big problems was a strain of tuberculosis. So, there was issues with the disease spreading between species. So, out of curiosity have any of you ever heard of ball pythons contracting human diseases? Or even diseases from other animals?
  • 11-15-2015, 04:32 PM
    bcr229
    I know salmonella can transmit between reptiles and people, though I'm not sure if reptiles get sick from it or if they simply carry it.

    Cryptosporidia reptidosis can be transmitted between different reptiles such as lizards and snakes, but not to humans (the "crypto" we get is a different strain).

    In both cases transmission is fecal-oral.
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