I dont believe the actual article says anything about that, however it's from 1995, so that's quite a long time.

Also consider that anywhere that has animals coming in and out has the potential to spread disease, no matter what store you go to there is a risk there (as any one of the animals could be infected, many pet stores are a lot less clean than one would really hope for them to be, etc). As for if that store is still around, it may be or it may not be. If customers found out the store was selling large numbers of animals that were at high risk of disease there is a chance that people would boycott them and the store would go out of business. It's possible this happened (as hundreds of diseased snakes making their way into people's homes would be very bad for business).