Salmonella vaccine close to development!

[Gomojoe]

This should help the reptile community out a little bit!

Http://Sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/...or-salmonella/


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[Annarose15]

I really hope no one focuses on the reptile community as a basis for the need for this vaccine, to be honest. I have owned and known owners of reptiles for twenty-five years, and have never had an experience with Salmonella. I personally don't want uninformed people to have their fears of their pet snakes being a danger to their children reinforced by someone pushing them to get vaccinated against "reptile bacteria." The real danger of this bacteria is in food that has not been prepared or stored properly, which is where media and consumer focus should remain.

[Gomojoe]

I agree, but believe if they make this vaccine it will be something that everyone gets and thus makes it a non-issue!


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[WingedWolfPsion]

True, the risk of contracting salmonella from reptiles will be dramatically reduced, which might leave an opening to overturn the law requiring all turtles sold be over 4 inches. (My primary issue with that law is that large turtles make poor pets for most people, and the small mud and musk turtles sometimes never get over 4 inches).

It removes one of the louder arguments against keeping reptiles that has been out there.

Unfortunately, it's also completely worthless, in a general sense. Salmonella is rarely a threat to anyone with a healthy immune system. It may make a person sick for 24 hours or so, but that's about it.
Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to make antibodies against the invading organism. If a person's immune system isn't normal, it won't be able to respond to the vaccine any better than it would to the actual organism. Their protection would be partial, if existent at all.
So, it's a pointless vaccine that would actually only prevent a few people from getting tummy aches on occasion.

Flu shots are likewise pointless, by the way. In one year in which the wrong vaccine was handed out (it was for a strain other than the one that was prevalent and making its rounds), the rate of death...was the same as in years where the correct vaccine was given. Oops.

[mr.spooky]

thats what i was thinking,,, i dident know that it was even a threat worthy of a vaccine
spooky

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

It's all a marketing ploy. People get that from food and other animals. Not reptiles. It's so rare to get it from reptiles that you never hear about it unless you ask a reptile community that is thousands strong. Then you might hear of a case or 2. People get food poisoning all the time. I had it just last month. A guy at work, just the other day. Always from eating out and like wingedwolf said, it usually only lasts a day or so.

I'd never take it if they came out with this vaccine just like I never got a flu vaccine. The flu vaccine has actually killed people. So has that stupid hpv vaccine. That's killed more people and made more sick than the flu vacc actually. If you knew what was actually in vaccines, the chemicals, you'd never put any of that into your body.