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i seen some where that we can get some kind of disease from our leopard geckos. its like stomach pain and other things. does any body know of what its called? please reply as soon as possible.

Not sure, but the first thing that comes to my mind is salmonella.

All reptiles (heck, all animals) have the potential to carry salmonella. It is not harmful to them, but can be to us. But it takes an awful lot of the bacteria to affect us slightly (diarreha, etc) and a ton to affect us seriously. It is transmitted via feces of an infected animal and must be injested. So, basically (1) your reptile would have to have salmonella (they can not have it one week and then have it the next) and (2) you'd have to eat their feces or touch something that came in contact with the contaminated feces and then eat that object - again you'd have to eat enough of it.

This may be of interest to you and your mom:
www.anapsid.org/salmprec.html

www.anapsid.org/salsolut.html

www.anapsid.org/salm3.html

www.anapsid.org/cleaning.html

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salmonella...it goesn't affect them usually, but can make people quite ill. It's why you're always supposed to wash your hands after handling a reptile, and should never get a child a reptile as a pet. It really usually isn't much of a problem unless the animals are kept in unsanitary conditions, and some reptiles are more likely to carry it than others...aquatic turtles turtles for example are much more likely than a leo to carry it...hopefully the reasons for that are obvious...lol Anyway...don't worry about it too much, but just to be safe, wash your hands after handling any reptiles
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any disease that is classified as zoonotic has the potential to be transmitted to humans.. however it is extemely, extremely rare this ever happens..the most common would be salmonella as noted earlier.. basically just follow good hygene practices and you should not have any problems.. if ya worried about getting salmonella from your gecko....you have a better chance of getting it from eggs or even kissing your dog (yes dogs can carry salmonella, think Pig ears too.)

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Salmonella is extremely rare in Leopard Geckos, and the only case I have ever heard of was from crickets that had eaten broken eggs from the egg crate material they are grown on.

Other zoonoses would include giardia (flagellate protozoan), coccicia (rare, since most strains are species specific), and of course, many nematode parasites (worms). Again, these infections would only occur in extremely rare instances, and the best way to prevent it is to practice good husbandry and wash your hands after handling your reptiles.
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