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This really annoyed me...

I love how media prefers to stir up fear and emotions rather than show numbers, facts, and offer sensible prevention measures such as "Wash hands before and after handling". But I guess they wouldn't attract as many consumers if they cut out the BS.
 
I agree with the article because it is pertaining to children 5 and under which can cause a problem if unsupervised by parents, a 4 or 5 year old child doesn't have a grasp on proper hygiene after handling reptiles. now my son is 6 and my daughter is seven and they are not allowed to handle my reptiles with out my presence for not so much for there safety, but for the reptiles safety also, they completely understand washing with hand sanitize, after handling in my presence, through my educating them, this is where the responsibility lies with reptile owners, and if your 5 year old child should end up at a pediatrics office with salmonella or some sort of parasite from a reptile or any other pet then shame on the parents!
 
I'd like anyone to prove that a child's salmonella came directly from a reptile, rather than from improperly prepared food. Anything's possible, I suppose.
 
madmax1 said:
a 4 or 5 year old child doesn't have a grasp on proper hygiene after handling reptiles.
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But what is "proper hygiene"?? That's the point I was trying to make in the ""original"" thread I linked above. I swam in slimy, algae filled cattle troughs as a young child on the farm . . . I'm (relatively) normal. George Carlin used to joke about swimming in the sewage infested waters of New York . . . he was (relatively) normal.

Long story short . . . WE are too clean. Anything in excess is bad.

D80
 
dionythicus said:
I'd like anyone to prove that a child's salmonella came directly from a reptile, rather than from improperly prepared food. Anything's possible, I suppose.
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you are so rite on that one! there is more of a chance prob. from improperly prepared food than from a reptile
 
Drizzt80 said:
But what is "proper hygiene"?? That's the point I was trying to make in the ""original"" thread I linked above. I swam in slimy, algae filled cattle troughs as a young child on the farm . . . I'm (relatively) normal. George Carlin used to joke about swimming in the sewage infested waters of New York . . . he was (relatively) normal.

Long story short . . . WE are too clean. Anything in excess is bad.

D80
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I agreed with what you said in that thread. I grew up playing in DIRT. I'm healthier than almost everyone I know, never sick.
Do you see kids playing in dirt anymore?
 
alan said:
I agreed with what you said in that thread. I grew up playing in DIRT. I'm healthier than almost everyone I know, never sick.
Do you see kids playing in dirt anymore?
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You do if you come to my house :) Our Grandson had a whale of a time this summer when we were clearing our little patch we call our own, we even made mud pies! And he didn't get sick!
 
alan said:
I agreed with what you said in that thread. I grew up playing in DIRT. I'm healthier than almost everyone I know, never sick.
Do you see kids playing in dirt anymore?
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Dirt is found outside. Don't you realize bears live outside!?:sidestep:
 
This might be slightly off-topic, but in a statistics course I once took, a study showed that poorer kids (those less sheltered from bacteria as a child) were less likely to contract a deadly disease, whereas the kids from wealthier families had much weaker immune systems. I believe the disease in regards to this study was polio, but I'm sure it applies across the board.

I've had to shelter my twins for the first year of their life because they were born premature. The doctor said, for many reasons, they can't get sick for the first year. Well, their birthday is on the 30th and the great outdoors be callin'!
 
alan said:
I agreed with what you said in that thread. I grew up playing in DIRT. I'm healthier than almost everyone I know, never sick.
Do you see kids playing in dirt anymore?
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Well, since my kids(1 boy, 2 girls) started night crawler hunting with thier dad and I at the age of 2, I can guarantee you my kids weren't too afraid of getting dirty.....lol
 
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