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salmonella

Alias47 said:
Oh, yeah...

I want to apologize again, Missy.

I really did mean I was sorry.
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its in the past now alias47, no worries and like i said to norbert03
you werent being mean really i was just being emotional that day, it sucks being a girl when those days come round, you sit there crying to yourself and yet you always have no idea why. LOL. and dont worry i will continue to kiss my snakies.

haha, copy and paste, im too lazy to re-write the post out. lol


back on topic here, thats a lot of information to take in angi, lol, thanx for that also.
now i am a very worried person and health is something im always worrying about, there are soo many things now that are fatal, without being funny but salmonella from my snakes is not at the top of my worry list. i hardly ever wash my hands after handling, always before though.
:)
 
Hi Missy
Im not wanting to scare people, hence my article coming from the angle of putting it all into perspective.
But washing your hands following touching any animal is always wise, but most people dont do it. Only unfortunately in our hobby we have an even better reason to do so, the animal activists work very hard to stop the keeping of reptiles as pets, and I understand in some states in the USA they have very sadly succeeded in one way or another. By doing our bit to prevent the speard of salmonella from reptiles we are giving them less amunition against us.
Let me tell you about one of those babies that died. The baby did not live in a household where reptiles were kept, in fact it was the grandparents that kept reptiles. I do not know if they washed their hands or not but we do know that they had a free roaming reptile. Hence the reptile touched many onbjects in the house that a baby would touch, including the clothes of the grandparents. The poor little soul suffered and died in hospital, tests proved that the strain of salmonella came directly from one of their reptiles. How devastating for them all. What a tradgedy.
If we can all start washing our hands afterwards then it will go some way towards preventing any further unnecessary deaths. The germs left on our hands will be transferred to anything we touch in and outside our houses ( one hospital lab worker even took his germs to work and was responsible for an outbreak in a hospital, it was proven). It has also be proven that the salmonella bacteria can remain on objects for many years ( a snakes shed skin hung on a wall was shown to harbour salmonella many years after being shed)
Some illnesses we do have some control over and others sadly we dont, we all have a responsability to ourselves, families, friends and the wider community in not taking unnecessary risks, it only takes minutes to wash hands - it could save a life!
Please excuse me for getting on my soap box, but the general public complain so much about the clealiness of hospitals, but if people only followed simple hygiene measures there would be so much less illness in the world. Gets down quietly of soap box.
Happy New Year everyone, make your new years resoloution be handwashing, lol.
 
Hi everyone. I always wash my hands after handling or cleaning my snakes and their vivs. I always imagine there are germs on the snake from crawling around their viv and across possible poop in the substrate and I don't like the thought of my hands being contaminated with these germs. I'm of the theory that just cuz I don't see it doesn't mean its clean. :)
 
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Let me add my two cents..... yuk guys (and gals) :puke01: who almost never wash their hands
The number one way to prevent ANY illness to reptile, human, or any animal is to wash your hands! before and after. If you haven't taken microbiology or history (thousands of people have DIED over time (and still do), because of non-hand washing)- just take a minute to think.... why do they put that sign in the public rest rooms....
Employee's must was their hands before returning to work....
Happy New Year (I hope everyone stays healthy) :)
Your resident registered nurse!
 
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