salmonella

[Lulu Bennett]

james you tramp eyywww!

[RZL36]

I paid someone to eat one and they did. Said it tasted terrible.

[Charlet_2007]

you all are disgusting lol altho i have ate my self no lieing squarrl brains, frog legs, bull testicals ( AKA rocky mountain oysters), and baby goat...

[GrapefruiTgirl]

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

[RZL36]

People have told me about my snakes having salmonella. I've obviously took into account their words of wisdom and threw all my snakes in the garbage.

[adamanteus]

If we banned everything that might carry some unpleasant bacteria, we'd all have to live in a vacuum and eat paper.

[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.

[GrapefruiTgirl]

... 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).

Really?? That's news to me, seriously! I thought (mistakenly?) that raw chicken by its very nature contained salmonella. And accordingly, one should never eat raw chicken.
Does that mean that theoretically, one could eat raw Sedish chicken, and not get food poisoning?
Wow...
I think I'll stick with the cooked variety

[Stefan-A]

Really?? That's news to me, seriously! I thought (mistakenly?) that raw chicken by its very nature contained salmonella. And accordingly, one should never eat raw chicken.
Does that mean that theoretically, one could eat raw Sedish chicken, and not get food poisoning?
Wow...
I think I'll stick with the cooked variety

It varies a lot. Portugal and Poland had salmonella in about 77-80% of their chickens about a year ago, Spain somewhere around 90%. I think the US was somewhere between 20-30%, although that's probably old info.

Naturally, you should always assume that it contains salmonella and cook it properly. Undercooked chicken tastes awful anyway.

[MoJo]

I would be shocked if 90% of reptiles carried salmonella. I would like to know where you got that statistic. Far more people who have reptiles would get salmonella.

Salmonella in NA is much more common in poultry and eggs. You are far more likely to get salmonella from uncooked/undercooked chicken or eggs or from the counters that they were prepared on!

The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, does not burrow into eyes while you are sleeping! Humans get it by eating undercooked infected pork and part of the tapeworm's life cycle brings into the brain! It is there that the problems can occur because the larvae in the brain can cause seizures.

Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted protozoa.

Joanna