Exercise the perfect offers animal assisted size classes same passion or both. Reptiles, including all types of snakes and lizards, pose safety risks to humans as well. incidents have been reported of escapes, strangulations, and bites from pet reptiles across the country. Snakes are the most common pet reptiles about 3% of U.S. households possess 7 million pet reptiles and have the potential to inflict serious injury through a bite or constriction. According to the University of more than 7 venomous snake bites are reported annually the United States 15 of which result death. Moreover, there have been several reported incidences involving strangulation by snakes. For example, on 28, Centralia, IL, a 3 year-old-boy was strangled to death by the family's pet python. The parents were charged with child endangerment and unlawful possession of a dangerous animal. Herpes B-virus: 80 to 90 percent of all macaque monkeys are infected with Herpes B-virus or Simian B, a virus that is harmless to monkeys but often fatal humans. Monkeys shed the virus intermittently saliva or genital secretions, which generally occurs when the monkey is ill, under stress, or during breeding At any given time, about 2% of infected macaque monkeys are shedding the virus. A person who is bitten, scratched, sneezed or spit on while shedding occurs runs the risk of contracting the disease. Monkeys rarely show any signs or symptoms of shedding, making it nearly impossible to know when one is at risk. Since 1992, there have been only 24 clearly documented cases of human infection of the virus; 19 of those infected died. According to the CDC, the reason for such apparently low rate of transmission include infrequent B virus shedding by macaques, cross-reactive immunity against B virus stimulated by herpes simplex virus infection, and undetected asymptomatic infection. However, the frequency of Herpes B infection humans has never been adequately studied and thus it is difficult to quantify how people are actually infected with the virus. Persons who possess or work with infected monkeys are presumed to be constant peril of potentially contracting the virus. Bites from non-human primates can cause severe lacerations. Wounds become infected, with the potential to reach the bone and cause permanent deformity. The frequency of bites remains a mystery. Although it is widely acknowledged that non-human primate bites are some of the worst animal bites, little research regarding them exists. Salmonellosis: Probably 90% of all reptiles and shed salmonella their feces. Iguanas, snakes, lizards, and turtles are common carriers of the bacterium. Reptiles that salmonella do not show any symptoms, thus there is no simple way to tell which reptiles play host to the microbe and which do not, because even those that have it do not constantly shed the bacterium. Salmonella infection is caused when individuals eat after failing to wash their hands properly after handling a reptile or objects the reptile contaminated Salmonella bacteria do not make the animal sick, but people can cause serious cases of severe diarrhea headache, malaise, nausea, fever, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and even death especially children, the elderly, and those with immune-compromised systems. addition, salmonella infection can result sepsis and meningitis as well as invade the intestinal mucosa and enter the bloodstream causing septicemia and death. 1999, the CDC contacted every state health department to determine whether state regulations existed for sale of reptiles and distribution of information about contracting salmonella from reptiles. Forty-eight states responded 3 had regulations requiring pet stores to provide information about salmonella to persons purchasing a turtle. Two states require salmonella information to be provided to persons purchasing any reptile, and 3 states prohibit reptiles day care centers and -term-care facilities. During 1996, 16 different state health departments reported to the CDC salmonella infections persons who had direct or indirect contact with pet reptiles, and 1994, 13 different state health departments reported salmonella