Public health officials have known for a long time that small children and small turtles are a very bad combination. The reason: Turtles carry salmonella bacteria. Kids handling turtles can and do get ...

If you were a kid in the 1960s or early 1970s, you probably had a red-eared slider as a pet — or at least one of your friends did. The baby turtles with dark-green shells, striped legs and faces ...

Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist Lou Perrotti.

ANNAPOLIS – Wildlife officials fear the latest installment of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise will trigger a pet turtle trade that could threaten children’s health and the health of ...

They're cute but potentially deadly. Tiny pet turtles, some of them the size of a quarter, are to blame for six ongoing salmonella outbreaks that have sickened nearly 200 people and counting — mostly ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a Salmonella outbreak linked to pet turtles that have made at least 15 people sick and five hospitalized in 11 ...

They’re cute but potentially deadly. Tiny pet turtles, some of them the size of a quarter, are to blame for six ongoing salmonella outbreaks that have sickened nearly 200 people and counting — mostly ...