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includes pictures of the sickness | | SALMONELLA.This is one of the most diseases associated with turtles.People over the years have becoming more and more concern about his one.Before this years ,it was a najor issue in connection of keeping a turtles as pets that eventually led to the 1975 food and drug Administration's ban on the sale of turtles with a carapace lenght of under 4 inches.Salmonella is a intestinal infection that attack many living thingsMany animals along with turtles are know to carry this disease.Salmonella is transmitted through dirty water.It also comes from infected food when it is shipped to a place.They all sit in one giant vase will waiting
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