Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
Two weeks is insufficient. Incubation period for IBD could be as long as 3 months (or longer), AND it may be possible for animals to be silent carriers. Incubation period for paramyxovirus could be as long as 10 months. (A full year's quarantine is now recommended, but thankfully carriers don't appear to exist).
I hear that boa constrictors can be those silent carriers, which is why my boa is kept in a completely separate room (in a different part of my house) than my pythons. I tried talking my mom out of getting the boa in the first place, but she liked it to much

You really need to have that boa necropsied. Being able to ID IBD versus paramyxovirus or one of the other big baddies will tell you more readily what you're dealing with, and could mean the difference between life and death for the other animals. It's unknown how IBD is transmitted, but paramyxo is transmitted by contact with secretions (like the common cold, rather than influenza).
I was reading this book about pythons, and while reading it said it could be carried by a retrovirus found in some mites. I'm not completely sure if that's true, but that's just what I read.

Is it possible for colubrids to get IBD (even though I hear it is only transmitted with boids) or paramyxovirus?

If you don't know what these animals might be carrying, what sane person would want to take the risk? I recall reading about one person who wound up with reovirus in their collection, and it killed every last animal--it was so persistant, even the animals kept away from the others for months eventually died. The owner had to burn her equipment just to feel safe.
There was a vet attended while these exotics were being treated, so he told us most of the stuff and which animals were to be treated. That story of the woman is very heartbreaking. How did the reovirus wind up in her collection?

I am not insane, but I would take that risk. Just like the folks at PHS kindly did, and others who took in those exotics.