Baby gets salmonella from snake
A three-month-old U.K. baby contracted salmonella from her family's pet snake.
Amanda Vry found out from research on the Internet that her daughter Gabriella could have contracted Salmonella from reptiles and is now looking for a new home for Reg, a Colombian Rainbow Boa.
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Reg was bought as a present for her son's ninth birthday and the family carried out research on keeping reptiles beforehand as Ms Vry was heavily pregnant at the time.
Apparently they didn't use the Salmonella search term, and it's unlikely most purveyors of reptilian pets talk about the Salmonella issue.
Ms Vry told BBC News,
"When they said it was salmonella I just did not know how she could have caught it. I went to the hospital's information centre and typed in 'salmonella' and it said it can be caught quite easily from reptiles. We were all shocked after we had carried out the research before. If I had been given this information before we bought it, we would never have bought it and my daughter would never have been ill and my family would not have gone through this."
As Samuel L. would say, "Get those mother***ing snakes away from those mother***ing babies."
Amanda Vry found out from research on the Internet that her daughter Gabriella could have contracted Salmonella from reptiles and is now looking for a new home for Reg, a Colombian Rainbow Boa.
Reg was bought as a present for her son's ninth birthday and the family carried out research on keeping reptiles beforehand as Ms Vry was heavily pregnant at the time.Apparently they didn't use the Salmonella search term, and it's unlikely most purveyors of reptilian pets talk about the Salmonella issue.
Ms Vry told BBC News,
"When they said it was salmonella I just did not know how she could have caught it. I went to the hospital's information centre and typed in 'salmonella' and it said it can be caught quite easily from reptiles. We were all shocked after we had carried out the research before. If I had been given this information before we bought it, we would never have bought it and my daughter would never have been ill and my family would not have gone through this."
As Samuel L. would say, "Get those mother***ing snakes away from those mother***ing babies."
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Salmonella is prevelant in reptiles due to bad house keeping if cleaned out properly the snake wouldnt have it in the first place. Also snakes can catch it a nd carry if if brough from stores with bad house keeping. you are more likely to get salmonella from a superstore egg snadwich than a reptile.
her son could have just as easily been playing with dirt in the back garden and infected the baby with something else. Wash hands after handling reptiles OR ANY OTHER ANIMALS INCLUDING DOGS AND CATS BEFORE HANLDING BABIES OR EATING COMMON SENSE REALLY
The ignorance of this blog post is appalling. The "facts" of this care are that (A) the woman has no idea how the baby got salmonella and (B) there's a greater chance it came from unwashed utensils or food items.
Of course, it's much easier to write a sensational / fictional headline like "Baby gets salmonella from snake" than to attempt anything resembling research or insight.
Ever since the fictional and laughable story of "Eden," people have treated snakes as nature's villains. Are we really that simple-minded a species, given our so-called powers of reason?
The greatest causes of salmonella in humans are uncooked poultry and unwashed vegetables. Go and look it up for yourself. We should turn Samuel L. Jackson loose on those evils as well.
Thanks for keeping hype, fear, ignorance and sensationalism alive on the Internet.