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Body Inclusion Disease?

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Sharon C

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I recently posted about my 10 year old corn snake who suddenly died within 36 hours of eating a rat. It had never come into contact with another snake and did not have mites as far as I could tell- I think if it had them the vet would have seen it under the flurescent light. Still, could my snake have been born with it, harbored it for 10 years, then had it manifest? It strongly resembles the symptoms of how my snake abruptly died.
 
P.S. I am considering adopting another snake and want to make sure I am not introducing it to a dangerous atmosphere. I m going to wait a little while- maybe to summer, then decide on another snake.
 
A case of inclusion body disease has never been observed outside of boids. It is believed to be caused by arenaviruses, and they are probably host-specific to the boid snakes, although this hasn't been confirmed. So your snake must have died from something else.
 
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Information I have researched said similar viruses have been seen in other snakes. They may call it something else possibly but the symptoms are the same.
 
Since the underlying virus that causes the disease hasn't even been proven to be the cause, they just look for the inclusion bodies in a necropsy. My understanding is that inclusion body disease, whatever the cause, has never been diagnosed in a corn necropsy. Which is why I highly doubt your corn was harboring some kind of latent virus. So I don't think you need to be concerned in that regard. There are other viruses that infect corn snakes and cause things like pneumonia or intestinal problems, and even one that causes malignant muscle tumors. But viruses aren't stable outside of a host and need some kind of exchange of body fluids or disease vector like mites to spread. So just bleach anything you are considering reusing to be on the safe side in case it was bacterial.
 
I would bleach everything. Expose what I could expose to sunshine outside. I always like to let a period of time go in between using stuff that maybe contaminated. Sometimes I do a bleach and air dry twice depending on what I am worried about.
 
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