My rule is not letting my snake or anything my snake touches (water bowl, etc) near where I eat. Therefore, I wouldn't let your snake on the kitchen table. I clean bowls and hides in the bathroom sink rather than the kitchen sink and I just keep a bottle of a bleach solution under the counter to give the sink a spritz when I'm done.
Salmonella is carried in the feces of reptiles, so the cleaner you keep the tank after they relieve themselves, the lower the risk. Just wash your hands after you touch your snake and keep its home clean and you don't have much to worry about. Snakes are pretty clean animals actually. But because the risk is there, however small, keeping the snakes out of the kitchen is a good rule for us all.
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