The reason there isn't many older boas is poor herpetoculture. It was always so, 35 years ago it was so, decades before IBD. Here's something we all know, that it takes a lot of hard work, time, and brains to keep a boa healthy for it's entire lifetime. On Gus' site he salutes the people who really do give great care. I have to agree. This is really why there aren't more 20 year old boas. That's a black eye to us too.

If half of the WC boas had it then most every collection with WCs in it, would also have it too, and we would surely know about it first hand. You'd be hearing about it in every forum. All the folks with WC boas would be freaking out, and we are not. In fact every instance of IBD I know about has been in CBB boas.

Anapsid says they determined that is is a retrovirus by electron microscopy. At least now we know. It's not a bunch of inclusion bodies all over, it's a pathogen, a retrovirus.
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