Kissing or snuggling with a pet hedgehog is proving to be prickly for some owners.
The CDC said a small multistate outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium is likely the result of contact with these exotic pets: 10 of the 11 people who were ill reported contact with a pet hedgehog, and the outbreak strain was found in two samples collected from three hedgehogs in the homes of two people taken ill. Both lived in Minnesota.
Besides Minnesota, cases were found in Colorado, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri,