The short answer to your question is who knows? The researchers are sorely underfunded and the community has been pathetic in helping them.
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The problem is people often don't find out why their pet snake has died, into the trash it goes. As more and more people are becoming educated on this, more and more people are opting for necropsies and histologies on deceased animals.
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Until a cost effective screening test is available that people will use and breeders will consent to utilize to screen their animals, we aren't going to ever know exactly which species can carry the disease asymptomatically. The community hasn't really supported this research and, as I said before, some of the biggest names in the business are on record saying that IBD really doesn't exist.
Originally Posted by Skiploder
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