Careful Cleaning your tank

[limmer]

Saw this today. 
"Girl may lose hand after catching fish TB"
Never occurred to me about cuts and scrapes.
Link to Article

[Fishnut]

That's awful!!  I sometimes get an allergic reaction when I'm playing in my tanks so I wear rubber gloves most of the time.  I should be wearing them ALL of the time I guess!

[Nerine]

So sad

I refuse to touch goldfish or koi that have illness just in case it's TB lol I've always been paranoid about it!!!

[dan2x38]

Unreal I always thought we couldn't catch fish disease's?    I read that way back wow makes me think now.

I got a bad infection once when Brine broke his collar bone I went to help do water changed. Got a splinter of his railing just when I arrived. Pulled out the piece it was big and deep though. Any ways next day my finger was swollen a little and within 3 days had go to doc. to get antibiotics got a wicked infection finger swelled up a balloon and sore as hell. That was 3 or more years ago and I still have a strange issue with the end of my finger just above where the splinter went in!

[robt18]

Any fish that develops a curved spine could have TB... don't handle these!

And there are tons of forms of bacteria in your tank that you don't want in your body, so if you've got open cuts you can wait a day or two for water changes

[dan2x38]

I read that 80% of fish have TB. If they are healthy it doesn't affect them. When they get stressed the TB takes over - big reason not to let your fish get stressed.

I hear ya about bacteria that is a given but TB is a virus. I thought we couldn't catch diseases - viral ones?