An outbreak of salmonella cases across 11 states has been linked to small turtles,
An African side-necked turtle in a classroom at Seth Low Intermediate School 96 in Brooklyn, on June 20, 2016.
Now, an outbreak of salmonella cases across 11 states has been linked to small turtles, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue safety instructions for people who have the reptiles as pets.Twenty-six people have been sickened in the salmonella outbreak and at least nine people have been hospitalized in recent months, the CDC said last week. No deaths have been reported, the agency said.
About one-third of the people who’ve gotten sick during the current outbreak have been under 5 years old, the CDC said. Of the 20 infected people who provided information to the CDC, 16 said they’d had contact with pet turtles; 12 of those said the pet turtles had shells less than 4 inches long. Most people with salmonellosis, the infection caused by salmonella, develop diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. More severe cases may lead to a high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, a rash, blood in the urine or stool and, in some cases, become fatal.
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