Can ingesting sick mice kill your snake?

[derrabe]

I was visiting with some family and friends the other day and the subject of Ball Pythons came up. Some friends of friends that were there, said that they used to have two BP's but that they both died. They went on to say that they thought it was some how connected to the mice that they were feeding them. And the reason they felt this way was because both snakes died in the same week and, according to them, right after they ate. Also they said these were mice that they had been raising and that shortly after that all of the mice died.

I have never heard of this and was wondering if anyone has.

What do you think?????

I guess it is possible that the mice ingested a poison and during the process of digestion the poison go into the snakes systems. I'm sure there are illness that can kill both mice and snakes. And ingesting them hopefully is the way it is passed on. But if All these animals died I would be taking some of them for a necropsy to make sure it wasn't gonna affect me and my family.