Researchers identify novel virus that could cause respiratory disease in ball pythons

Monday, September 8, 2014 - 23:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified a novel virus that could be the source of a severe, sometimes fatal respiratory disease that has been observed in captive ball pythons since the 1990s. The work is published this week in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

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