I had to go to the ER a few weeks ago with intense vertigo because it turned out I had labyrinthitis, which is an inflammation of the inner ear. My mom came up to my apartment to drag my dizzy, stumbling self into the car and called my grandmother from the ER to tell her I wasn't dying, just had a bad ear infection giving me the dizzies. My grandmother promptly replied, "Could she have gotten that from that SNAKE she has?!?!"
Yes, yes indeed, those evil snakes just spreading those ear infections. Can't trust them for a second!