Online sale of small turtles circumvents public health regulations in the United States (IMAGE)

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Online sale of small turtles circumvents public health regulations in the United States

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Small turtles cannot legally be sold as pets because of the Salmonella infection risk.

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Kris-Mikael Krister, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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