How common is it for a ball python to have hookworm. And can the snake contract this from a bad rodent. I got a normal female in with a package deal and she died about 3 days ago. She had been having diarea, and not eating. But I thought the not eating maybe from it being breeding season. I was going to take her to the vet on wed this week but she passed on on tue. Now I have had a couple other fecal exams on some other snakes and the vet found hookworms in their tests. I'm treating it with panacur so I hope I caught it in time. I'm treating all the snakes I got in the deal. But I was wanting to know if the snake can get this parasite from bad rats. Any way thanks for any help and info you can give me.

Alan