salmonella

[Stefan-A]

I'm inclined to think that by the same token as banning certain animals because they carry salmonella, they ought to ban chicken from the grocery store because of it, and pork too for risk of trichomoniasis worms burrowing into ones eyes while they sleep, after having cooked pork for supper and rubbed ones eyes afterwards without having washed their hands.
Also, I think that some chicken or pork that lays rotting and festering in the refrigerator would pose a far greater health hazard than the average reptile, under average circumstances

LOL, my two cents

Sort of depends on where you live, different countries have different standards when it comes to chickens, for example. Sweden for example has a complete zero tolerance policy regarding salmonella in chickens. Close to 0% of the chickens raised there carry the bacteria and less than 10% in the rest of the Nordic countries and Western Europe, compared to 90% of the reptiles (could be wrong , I only used one source).

Overall, we all seem to agree that the salmonella "threat" is exaggerated.