Turtles might be cute, but they can also be a nasty pet.
I'm not talking about the smell, the potential for nasty bites or the general boring-ness of the pet -- they have also been linked to over 100 cases of Salmonella in the past 8 months. We use the turtle outbreaks as a focus for this week's infosheet, as a reminder to food handlers about the potential for pets to pass on pathogens.
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July 22, 2008 7:01 PM
Turtles do not make good pets. The best people to attest to it would be Julie and William Godwin, the parents of three-week-old Shanna Godwin, who was killed in Feb. 2007 by Salmonella Pomona from a pet turtle in their...
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