Could this be IBD?

[Skiploder]

Bingo!!! There is a lot of misconstrued info that flies around the internet and gets passed on as if it is gospel. Truth is, IBD is at best, a very poorly understood condition. There is very little known as to how long it can lie dormant in an animal, boa or python, or how long either a boa or python can actively carry symptoms before it kills them. I think the main reason that people are so attached to the idea that it kills pythons so swiftly, is that in the majority of earlier documented IBD cases, it was in pythons. Now the tide has turned a bit, and as of somewhat recent, it has been seen primarily in boas.

If you look hard at those early IBD cases, with rare exception, many of those cases were never confirmed via necropsy.

Without getting into too much detail (Alex and I fleshed this out in another thread), many of those early reported cases (cough cough Anapsid cough cough) were never confirmed with a necropsy and could have easily been something like OPMV.

Those early reports left an indelible mark on keepers. Now any time an animals shows neurological symptoms or a collection is ravaged by disease, the community immediately thinks "IBD".

The fact is that an animal can easily be am asymptomatic IBD carrier and die of something else...........