we were housing a friends snakes for the weekend because his power was out and we noticed sunday that his green patternless burmese was having trouble closing his mouth, seemed to be breathing funny, so we called the vet and he said it was probably a resp. infection to come get some med and treat him... this morning my fiance went up to check on him and found him belly up in his tank covered in strange spots and having spasms.... we called the friend and immediatly rushed him to the vet where they told him he needed to be euthanized, he had IBD... inclusion body disease... or at least thats what i think he said... so reluctantly our friend let him put his snake down... in the process the vet told them several things that worried me... like this is passed snake to snake most likely through mites... it can lay dormant in boa's for up to 6 months but only about a month in a python... and is completely untreatable... has anyone heard anything about this? now im freakin out cause we have both a python and a boa and im scared to death of losing either of them... plus we are still housing his other albino burmese until he gets his power back on... is there really no treatment for this? am i destined to sit and watch my babies die? please anyone with info HELP