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::OK, so it can happen. However, personal experience (several hundred bites from several dozen species, wild and captive) and experiences of those I know in the reptile community (many of whom have 3-4 decades of experience and the many bites that go with that) suggest that it is very rare, especially compared to conventional means of Salmonella transmission (failing to wash hands after contact with reptiles and/or their waste, ditto for non-reptile sources like raw chicken). Plus, if we're being fair, we should probably add several hundred zoonotic diseases to the pages [[cat]] and [[dog]]. I mean, what's more deserving of a warning, an upset stomach from your snake, or your cat giving you a [[Toxoplasma|brain parasite that alters your personality]]?
::Technically it can happen. Technically, you can be killed if you hit a deer while riding a motorcycle. But the odds of either happening, at all or as compered to other mortality/morbidity events, is so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 20:47, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
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