The New IBD Blood Test - Predictions?

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You'd be surprised the number of Demodex cases we see at animal shelters (and vet clinics) that are past the treatable stage.

Besides, if there is a large increase in the IBD incidence rates, there will be more effort placed on getting it under control medically. There are already groups that have started work on it...I'm sure they didn't have a cure for Demodex when it first was isolated either.

Anoter suitable example would be Streptococcus pyrogenes that lives on our skin. Most of us have no issue with it: we get a cut, we heal. Most of us even have the pathogenic form living in our throats. It's only certain people or certain environmental triggers that cause Strep Throat or Necrotizing Fasciitis; otherwise people aren't running for the hills over these things.

Either way, we will have to wait until it happens to react to it

People are so accustomed to certain ways of thinking that they never look at alternative possibilities. Some people may look at an answer to the asymptomatic carrier question as potential a death knell for the boid portion of the Hobby, but I beg to differ.

The question may not be "What percentage of the boid population is asymptomatic?" but rather "Why do some snakes carry, but are never affected by the disease?" What if THAT question can be answered?

The more animals that are tested, the faster we will get answers to many many questions. I no longer have pythons or boas, but if I did, I would test them and hope that the data goes towards a database being built to better understand this disease.

Doesn't matter - I'm calling my shot again, here and now: no big breeders are going to rush out to have their animals tested.