Transfering pests

[bigfella77]

Hi all, was wondering if its possible to transfer pests to from myself to my snake. I work in the bush every day and constantly suffer ticks, leeches and every other creature that bites, crawls or flies. This thought occured to me reading about mites on another thread and got to wondering if there is anything else in the aussie bush that can cause probs for captive snakes.

 

[gillsy]

Ticks are the only thing really, I commonly have to remove 10+ ticks of rescue diamonds before releasing them.

Monitors usually have quick a few on them to, never seen anything more than a bush tick tho.