The instance of a four-month-old baby girl, who contracted salmonella from circuitous contact with an eastern bearded dragon, has been able to bring to light the level of health risks that reptilian pets can pose to young kids.

An editorial to be published in the Medical Journal of Australia today, has successfully been able to illustrate that the girl had to be taken to an ACT hospital emergency department in the previous year, who suffered from fever, vomiting and severe diarrhea.

A squad of seven doctors and scientists, who took a thorough look into the matter, wrote in the article that the girl was hospitalized for four days, but no other family members were seen to be affected the way she was.

It is generally seen that humans tend to contact salmonella only after eating something that is tainted with the particular virus, however, this girl was entirely breastfed.

Laboratory testing brought out the sole information that the girl was the first person on record in the ACT, who was infected with a kind of salmonella that is known by the name of rubislaw.