Python Removed From Home After Making Kids Sick
19.05.12
But what happened to him with this one has never happened before.
"He started to get sick about three weeks afterwards, and I took him to the emergency room and the next thing you know I got a call from the CDC saying he had salmonellosis and we narrowed it down to the snake."
When the Sybergs realized the snake had also spread salmonella to a couple of their son's friends, they called St. Louis County Animal Control to take it away.
"They found the snake to be not in the greatest condition," said Drew Hane, the Manager of Vector Control and Veterinary Services for St. Louis County.
"It appeared not to have eaten for a while, the animal was cold upon us picking it up, which is not good for the species, so he is going to be rehabilitated," Hane said.
Leah Syberg offers this explanation, "Once everything happened, no one wanted to touch it. So he was feeding it, but whenever it started to come out, I wouldn't let anybody touch it. My son didn`t even want to touch it."
Source: KY3