Exotic Incident #103

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Summary:

Four infant girls contracted an intestinal infection from household snakes and iguanas. The four girls were sick in early 1996, but the hospital was only recently able to determine that the illnesses were contracted from reptiles. One of the girls contracted Salmonella gastroenteritis after a “pet” snake was in the family bathtub. Salmonella has killed infants in households where reptiles were “pets.”