well, with kids you do actually have to be careful of salmonella. If they're young enough, they can get pretty damn sick from turtle water. Liability is indeed an issue, despite turtles not being aggressive animals. :S
Ours go to the vet and get tested for it. They've never carried it. Still, there are still all kinds of reasons for not letting little kids play with foot-long turtles, especially if they're not your kids. :-)
Hell, we bring our goldfish to the vet. It just needs a vet who does "exotics." Once you get past the living-in-water part, they are treatable like any other animal--you look at their wastes or whatever under a microscope and see what's living in it, and then use whatever drug works on that microorganism.
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