I don't know about snakes in the wild but the ones diagnosed and kept in captive collections don't die quickly. It would be better if they did since they would not spread it.
Sadly wild female colubrids with SFD that are gravid have been collected, studied, their eggs incubated, etc. Most of the neonates are stillborn and the few that are born live show SFD signs within days of hatching.
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