Nome
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lol, okay APL I was just referring to your post below when I said 'arcing up'. Sorry if I misunderstood.
Back on topic.
What I find the hardest about this disease, it's like Boa said here or some other post, overseas they just take their live snakes and get them tested...it makes it so hard that we dont' have access to that kind of test here, we have to wait till it's developed. Even testing them when they are dead isn't that easy here too, we had to pay $450 for the histiopath alone on the dead diamond to get it tested, money we certainly didn't have to throw around, and most people wouldn't, big reason people don't test their snakes when they die from suspicious symptoms. Ive heard it's cheaper other places, I think we payed more to use IDXX which are the best and a result from them can be basically guaranteed as conclusive.
We are still 2 years at least away from getting a live snake test. While things are like this, 100s of collections could have OPMV in them and not even know. How many people you hear of losing a snake to a respiratory infection? That's one big way that OPMV manifests. I've rarely heard of any of those people getting the dead snake tested. That's what is scary, the amount of snakes that do die from assumed causes, but aren't tested....the vet we used (reputable herp vet) reckons that it 's in heaps of collections without the owners realizing.
ppl in here really shat the hell out of me i never said anything of the sort that there isnt anything like that here in darwin whether there is or not i just havent heard about it its wat i was saying ppl jump to the wrong conclusions of ppls comments which lead to ppl being nasty or making harsh remarks i aint close minded nor am i frickin naive adbacus you certainly dont know anything about me to make such remarks..... if you dont have anything nice to say then dont say it at all........i will state it again I DID NOT SAY THAT THERE WAS NOT ANY CASES IN DARWIN JUST THAT i HAVENT HEARD OF IT HERE.......Understand english?????
Back on topic.
What I find the hardest about this disease, it's like Boa said here or some other post, overseas they just take their live snakes and get them tested...it makes it so hard that we dont' have access to that kind of test here, we have to wait till it's developed. Even testing them when they are dead isn't that easy here too, we had to pay $450 for the histiopath alone on the dead diamond to get it tested, money we certainly didn't have to throw around, and most people wouldn't, big reason people don't test their snakes when they die from suspicious symptoms. Ive heard it's cheaper other places, I think we payed more to use IDXX which are the best and a result from them can be basically guaranteed as conclusive.
We are still 2 years at least away from getting a live snake test. While things are like this, 100s of collections could have OPMV in them and not even know. How many people you hear of losing a snake to a respiratory infection? That's one big way that OPMV manifests. I've rarely heard of any of those people getting the dead snake tested. That's what is scary, the amount of snakes that do die from assumed causes, but aren't tested....the vet we used (reputable herp vet) reckons that it 's in heaps of collections without the owners realizing.
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