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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)
:::The link to the CDC article above citing an incidence of 93,000 cases of salmonella from contact with reptiles and amphibians is no longer valid (page not found error). However, I was able to find a summary of that article in another article, available [http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192240&resultClick=1 here], mentioning this rate— and explaining that it represents approx. 7% of annual cases of salmonella contamination in the US. If we are to accept that 7% figure, it begins to seem like sufficient reason to include mention of the bacterium somewhere, but the summary I found did not mention the specific species most prevalent as vectors, and I don't see any use in mentioning salmonella in every article about a reptile or an amphibian. Such a fact ''could'', however, be situated in the article on [[reptile]]s and/ or the one on [[amphibian]]s generally, I should think. Whatever one or another person's actual experience may be, a national rate of 7% of all salmonella cases in the US is large enough to warrant mention. [[User:KDS4444|<font face="Verdana"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen"><sup>''Talk''</sup></span></font>]] 10:15, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
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