Bearded dragons linked to salmonella surge in 25 states: CDC - New York Post
Twenty-one of the infected people whom health officials interviewed revealed that they owned or had touched bearded dragons in the week before they got ill.Health investigators collected feces samples from a bearded dragon of one of the affected people.Bearded dragons can carry salmonella germs in their excretions.People with weak and compromised immune systems should also not have a bearded dragon, since these classes of people have a higher risk of falling ill from the germs the animals carry.