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