
|Articles|April 2, 2010
Have You Heard? Stop! Don't kiss that frog!
Despite Disney's popular movie, kissing a frog won't turn you into one. But some frog owners have developed salmonellosis from contact with their amphibian friends.
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Despite Disney's popular movie, kissing a frog won't turn you into one. But some frog owners have developed salmonellosis from contact with their amphibian friends.
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Multistate outbreak of human
Salmonella typhimurium
infections associated with aquatic frogs-United States, 2009.
MMMWR Weekly
2010;58(51&52):1433-1436.
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