Burm IBD disease Help!

[burmsnake!!!]

can some one explain what IBD is and where it comes from? iv lots of research and there are a lot of different things that i have seen i have a one year old burm and 2 months ago some one brought a snake into my house while i was away for military purposes and it died and now some one has me worried about ibd the snake that died was a emerald tree boa so i would like to be able to talk to some one who can help so shoot me an e mail if you dont mind matthew.fank@yahoo.com

[millertime89]

IBD is inclusion body disease and once contracted by a python is fatal. Its generally passed from one snake to another via mites or direct contact. Boas can be asymptomatic carriers, that means that they might have the disease but not show the symptoms for the longest time.
Its imperative that you quarantine your burm and not introduce ANY new snakes to your collection without keeping them quarantined really well from each other.

[alessia55]

Signs of infection include central nervous system disorders such as paralysis, being unable to right itself when turned over, "star-gazing", inability to strike or constrict. Other signs include chronic regurgitation, extreme weight loss, respiratory infections, and dysecdysis due to the inability to control body movements enough to rub off the old skin.

In pythons, the disease progresses much more rapidly than in boas. Along with the above symptoms (excluding the chronic regurgitation), pythons also tend toward infectious stomatitis ("mouth rot"), heightened or exaggerated reflex responses, disorientation (which may be precipitated by the onset of central blindness) and loss of motor coordination.

Inclusion Body Disease
Symptoms for Inclusion Body Disease in Snakes