Yes, four days ago I got the symptoms for salmonella. I visited the doctor yesterday after the pain got so bad I could barely breathe. After a blood sample, a match for match of symptoms and the obvious snake keeping landed me in bed with salmonella with strict rules on eating, drinking, and low activity.

If you are curious, I do wash my hands after cleaning or holding onto my snakes... but I must have touched my face or something in between, which wouldn't surprise me especially with it being so hot and sweating during my daily cleaning, feeding and checking activities.

Out of curiousity, are all snakes infected with it? I have had snakes for a couple of years now and have never had salmonella, till now, recently got a new one 7 days ago and wondering if she could be the culprit or if it could have been any of my snakes no matter how long I have had them?