Is your fish tank making you sick?

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I thought all we had to worry about was peanuts, smoking, running with scissors, etc. now we can add fish to the long growing list of things that are bad for you......

http://healthandfitness.sympatico.ms...abc&date=False

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While fish may seem the least threatening of pets, fish owners should still take care when cleaning or handling their finned friends. Ornamental fish tanks are a reservoir for multidrug-resistant Salmonella Paratyphi B dT+, a cause of gastroenteritis in humans, especially young children, according to a study published in the March issue of Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, an Australian periodical.

Researchers found that bacterial infections, traced via DNA analysis to fish tanks in the patients' homes, were serious enough to send children to the hospital with high fever and bloody diarrhea. The bacteria is resistant to a number of drugs, including ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, and tetracycline, making it harder to treat.