02/04/2021
ATTENTION EVERYONE!
We have people from the Corallus community that deserves our attention and help! C&R Corallus found out one of the animals is positive for arena virus and they are gonna test every animal to make sure it won't spread to anyone's collection!
Since they are so important and bring SO MUCH to our community, I ask everyone that can, make a donation to help them!
You can donate in here: https://gofund.me/fbc1a92c
You can read their announcement below and understand more what's going on:
"Yesterday we had some devastating news, one of our animals "Patches" has tested positive for arenavirus. He had no symptoms of IBD and was tested as a matter of precaution when he developed a respiratory infection. Alongside the arenavirus was mycoplasma, an antibiotic resistant bacteria. Obviously at the moment we are still trying to process this heartbreaking news but from the outset we need everyone to know we will deal with this in the best and most responsible way we can.
Going forward we have already spoken to the purchasers of any atbs currently in our care and reserved.
Long term we have decided
1. Patches is being put to sleep next week (the first available appointment our vet had) and we will have a full post mortem to look for inclusions caused by IBD since he showed none of the neurological symptoms associated.
2. Pairings we have made this year and we are confident have had no contact with the positive individual will be tested multiple times and moved into the house as a biosecurity measure. Should these pairings produce offspring these will be tested also, at this point we will have to add the cost of testing to any animal we part with but we hope that perhaps this can become the normal within the hobby. Protect your animals because you can just never be sure, for years we have done random testing as a precaution but obviously now we need to step up and test everything we own and produce. Whilst arenavirus is thought to be present in a high number of captive boas with no issues we feel we have to be mindful that the potential is still there, especially within mixed collections.
3. All individuals that have had direct contact with Patches will be tested as a matter of urgency, these will be done multiple times. We are hopeful that our standard hygiene procedures will have been effective in preventing spread but obviously direct contact produces a higher risk.
4. We will begin testing everyone, currently the cost of this is looking to be upwards of £15000 and we cannot do this without support. We fully appreciate that an additional cost on our offspring is alot to ask but in return you will have as much reassurance as we or anyone can give that that animal is negative. Without continuing to breed we simply cannot afford to test, over the last 10 years we have done all we can to provide the best quality animals and share a passion for a genus we truly love. We have always tried to support anyone as much as we possibly can and now we ask that that kindness is returned in your continued support and confidence that we will always do the best we can for our animals and yours.
All that being said we urge other breeders to take the same approach, together we can ensure that UKCB are the best quality."
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