Boa species can be asymptomatic carriers, sometimes not being affected at all, but they can pass it to other boids. To Pythons it is nearly always fatal.

Proper quarantine procedure should help you by looking for the typical signs, if possible a live liver biopsy would rule it out for sure.

I assume you do not plan on keeping the boa in the same cage as your Ball Python, nor do you plan on breeding the two together, so unless your care is unsanitary you shouldn't have a problem even IF the boa had IBD. Exchange of bodily fluids can transmit it, the virus is very unstable outside of the host. Not sharing water bowls; using gloves to clean cages; washing hands between feedings, handleing, cage cleaning, or any other maintainence task (as should be done no matter what) will make contamination nearly impossible.

BTW, I am recalling this from memory, so do not take it as full fact. If anything I said here is incorrect or not 100% accurate please correct me.

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