Salmonella is common in just about everything that lives or was alive at some point. It also has many different strains. Does your mother have any pets? Or comes in contact with any pets? I don't mean reptiles, but cats, dogs, birds, small mammals, etc. Heck, if she had eggs recently and didn't wash her hands after cracking open the eggs before she grabbed her toast, she could have contacted the salmonella from the egg shells.

If many of her doctor's patients are showing signs of salmonella, maybe his office is contaminated...or the lab is contaminating the samples.

It is maddening that people always blame reptiles for things when it is rare to contact anything from reptiles to start off, unless they are not cleaned up properly, and you don't wash your hands after handling reptiles. There is a much higher risk for people to come in contact with salmonella from cats and dogs, so many people let these animals lick them in the face, especially kids.
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