Ophidio paramyxovirus

[Morelia_Hunter]

Dont buy any snakes?

[pike1]

M.H you wrote " Time from exposure to death is 6 to more than 10 weeks. " But then wrote " Anorexia, Hypophagia, and regurgitation are the earliest signs and have been seen up to 7 months prior to any other signs of disease." did you mean 6-10 months?

[Morelia_Hunter]

No there are different types of effects that this disease have. There are three categories of symptoms. I just wrote what i thought was the ones I thought you should look for. Look on page 392 in "Reptile medicine and surgery"by D. Mader. Has everything you need to know in there. Its the Bible of medical diseases and treatments there of. An all round, brilliant book.

[tia]

Originally Posted by peterescue

when you say PV, what do you mean, Parvo? thats another one.
The thing is that almost everything that can go wrong with your snake will show up the same basic set of symptoms.

Sorry I wasn't very clear. It was OPMV that was diagnosed

[Hix]

OPMV has been here for only a couple of years. Unless things have changed it can be diagnosed here, but confirmation of the strain can only be done overseas (as Peterescue said).

I know of one public wildlife collection (with excellent quarantine protocols) that has had two outbreaks of OPMV. They tracked it back to a volunteer who had been handling illegally-acquired exotics at a mates place (or so I was told).



Hix

[peterescue]

I stand by my statement on symptoms. Pike for instance has just outlined the symptoms of worm overload, aomeba, flageletes, crypto, etc