and it does detect more than just adenovirus, there are two other virus showing up lately also, and those if you can get the babies over the outbreak are not like adeno and incurable. The fecal that Dr Wentz has developed will run about $75. and he can send you the prep infomation and the University to send it to and how to send it.



With bodies, you have to have a vet prep sections as that is what most lab will accept and not the whole body. It would run about $400 to do a full necropsy or $40 a sections.



NOw, all this aside, it does take a few weeks in in that time it will not help the dragons you have that may have been exposed to something, but it will tell you if you have something going on in your colony.



Adeno incubation is about 10 days to 2 weeks, so these babies may have hatched clear and it is being picked up from another dragon in your colony that shows no symptoms.



You shold first have a living one checked that is in the same clutch and see what that says, then, if there is something there, start with testing the mother, and eventually the others til you know for sure who is the carriers of it.



I am so sorry you and them are going through this, losing babies to any virus is so emotionally toiling on an owner.... I seen grown tough men crying daily was the little ones go down hill and it devastate some so bad, they stopped breeding or even raising dragons.. hang in there, we will help all we can with info or just knowing someone is there with you.



IF you want to email me I have also help you with the adults and the locations they came from.... with the likelyhood of pinpointing where it entered your colony. Almost all adeno cases do trace back to one of four breeders eventually, so that is sometimes used to spot the most likely one in a colony that is the carrier.
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• Strange beardie illness, please help! - snakecharmed, Mon Jan 12 02:34:22 2004
• RE: Strange beardie illness, please help! - BeginnersBasics, Mon Jan 12 09:23:10 2004
• That's the first thing I thought of as well. n/p - wideglide, Mon Jan 12 09:45:13 2004
• Me too n/p - Christyj, Mon Jan 12 11:56:33 2004
• CHERI... Jump in here please! N/P - BeginnersBasics, Mon Jan 12 10:33:42 2004
• I gotta work to and support this "habit" and burned out too with - CheriS, Mon Jan 12 20:02:04 2004
• Here's some info..... - brdfreak, Mon Jan 12 11:13:05 2004
• RE: Here's some info..... - BeginnersBasics, Mon Jan 12 11:19:37 2004
• RE: Here's some info..... - grimdog, Mon Jan 12 11:30:11 2004
• Oops.... Here's the contact info for Dr. Wentz - brdfreak, Mon Jan 12 11:45:16 2004
• A fecal on a live beardie would probably be the way to go - CheriS, Mon Jan 12 18:33:58 2004
• Here is a link with some more info. - wideglide, Mon Jan 12 12:04:35 2004
• weird thing....biology book has adeno in it....who would have thought - carbonatom13, Mon Jan 12 19:50:39 2004
• It can have different effects on different species (more) - CheriS, Mon Jan 12 20:09:09 2004