This morning our Albino Burmese python "Butters" died. Last night it showed the same symptoms as my Burm did, head & neck spinning/twisting, open mouthed--spinning around, head tremors.

Butters was a real nice girl, we are all so sad about it happening. From what I was told, the two Rattlesnakes that were on the shelves below Butters were the FIRST ones showing the exact same symptoms, then everything else started to come down with it.

Even though this will probably tell me nothing as Skiploder said, I read Reptile Channel's information about paramyxovirus, and it states this: "Paramyxovirus is most common in vipers, but it is occasionally found in other snake species." Rattlesnakes are vipers, and a couple of our other vipers had died mysteriously too (all we know is they did not want to eat after a while).

So possibly the Rattlesnakes could have had it first, and then passed it on to our other snakes? The Texas seizure snakes were no where even close to where the Rattlesnakes and venomous snakes were, they were probably 20-30 feet apart from each other.

Not trying to get anyone mad that I keep assuming the worst diseases, but I'm just trying to think of the possibilities. Next time I'm there I'll give them a printed out sheet on paramyxovirus and tell them to do a necropsy on the next snake who shows signs of head tremors and the head spinning like Butters and the other snakes did, and to NOT freeze the snake.