While touching an iguana or its feces can cause salmonella, a new Centers of Disease Control & Prevention report links an iguana’s bite to a rare bacterial infection called mycobacterium marinum.

They don't breathe fire, but they will bite you using their saw-like teeth. What to do if an iguana bites you The teeth of green iguanas are serrated and can cause deep bite wounds.

This unusual case showed what can happen when you stand between an iguana and some cake.

“There is we know a lot about animal bites and bacteria, infections, following, let’s say, dogs or cats, but there really isn’t much for lizards, let alone iguana,” he said.

But iguanas do bite and it can be painful. What to do if an iguana bites you The teeth of green iguanas are serrated and can cause deep bite wounds.

The Warrick County sheriff says an iguana took a bite out of crime, so to speak.

Doctors suspected it might be a cyst but as it continued to grow, the parents realized the bump was in the same spot as the iguana bite, CNN reported.

“There is we know a lot about animal bites and bacteria, infections, following, let’s say, dogs or cats, but there really isn’t much for lizards, let alone iguana,” he said.