Add those lovable tiny hedgehogs to a list of pets that can make we sick.
In a final year, 20 people were putrescent by a singular though dangerous form of salmonella bacteria, and one chairman died in January. The illnesses were related to hit with hedgehogs kept as pets, according to a news expelled Thursday by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials on Thursday contend such cases seem to be increasing.
The CDC recommends entirely soaking your hands after doing hedgehogs and cleaning pet cages and other apparatus outside.
Other pets that lift a salmonella bug are frogs, toads, turtles, snakes, lizards, chicks and ducklings.
Seven of a hedgehog illnesses were in Washington state, including a genocide – an aged male from Spokane County who died in January. The other cases were in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Oregon.
In years past, usually one or dual illnesses from this salmonella aria have been reported annually, though a numbers rose to 14 in 2011, 18 final year, and dual so distant this year.
Children younger than 5 and a aged are deliberate during top risk for serious illness, CDC officials said.
Hedgehogs are small, insect-eating mammals with a cloak of unbending quills. In nature, they infrequently live underneath hedges and urge themselves by rolling adult into a spiky ball.
The critters related to new illnesses were purchased from several breeders, many of them protected by a U.S. Department of Agriculture, CDC officials said. Hedgehogs are local to Western Europe, New Zealand and some other tools of a world, though are bred in a United States.
