Thursday, May 19, 2016
Don't Touch the Turtles
A salmonella outbreak began around April this year and has sickened over 150 individuals throughout 26 states. 36 of those individuals were so gravely ill they were needed to be hospitalized. This outbreak was all caused by little baby turtles. Salmonella can live and grow on reptiles without sickening the animals. Many clueless tourists and beach-goers see the small turtles and immediately want to pick them up and take a selfie. As a consequence many of these individuals will soon become sick with salmonella poisoning. Not only could you sicken yourself but picking up the baby turtles is putting them in danger as well. In the media recently, we have heard about baby dolphins dying due to idiotic people taking them out of the water to take selfies. As a note to self; don't touch the animals, you'll get sick and they'll die.
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Oh my gosh- I had not heard about this. I heard about the baby dolphins, but this is crazy. Comes to show how much common sense people have... This kind of reminds me of one of my dad's coworkers. It is said that rabbits will abandon their babies once humans have touched them. So, when my dad's coworker walked up to my dad holding a baby rabbit, my dad was not very happy. First of all, even if the coworker did not know the rabbit would abandon the baby, why would he just pick up a wild baby rabbit? Second, by picking up the bunny, he basically is sending it to its death. It's so sad that people don't think about the consequences to their actions. Leave animals be!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the warning I'll be careful with my next turtles. On the subject of salmonella... is raw cookie dough actually dangerous? I feel like it's just a lie all kids are told so that we don't eat all the cookie dough before it turns into cookies.
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