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EricIvins
at Tue Sep 23 18:18:57 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by EricIvins ]
IBD can break you in this hobby. It is the scarlet letter of the Reptile world. Pythons don't last long when symptoms start. Boas can be A-symptomatic for who knows how long. Bottom line, if infected, it can and will destroy a collection whether in-direct, or directly. For someone that has a few "Pets", it may not be viewed the same as the people who have blood, sweat, tears, and a butt load of money invested in their collections. It's not something that is taken lightly, and the fact that we know very little about it makes the "Paranoia" worse. Diagnosis can be very complicated and costly, and mis-diagnosis can ruin someone with a stellar reptation over night. Inclusion bodies are not hard to find. It is where and in what concentrations that determines what we call "IBD". Personally, it should be called something more defining, and not so broad. It would help with public perception, and not cause un-educated panic like it sometimes does.
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South Central Herpetological
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RE: IBD? What is it? - EricIvins, Tue Sep 23 18:18:57 2008