http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19261506


A BBC brief on the original doctors/scientists looking at IBD and Paramyxoviruses.....specifically states that these diseases are so hot that once infected, the snakes die within weeks.

For any of you further interested the new article sites some newer research being done and there is a link to the article and journal in which it was published....

"Identification, Characterization, and In Vitro Culture of Highly Divergent Arenaviruses from Boa Constrictors and Annulated Tree Boas: Candidate Etiological Agents for Snake Inclusion Body Disease"