FATAL RANAVIRUS INFECTION IN A GROUP OF ZOO-HOUSED MELLER'S CHAMELEO...

Yikes! That is a fast acting, terrible virus. Looking deeper I found it can be present for over a month. Which is why it is sooo important to quarantine all new animals that enter the home at Least 45 days. Considering it killed all those mellers it such a short amount of time, it doesn't look like there is much chance of survival.

Good read!
 
kinyonga said:
"This case series documents the first known occurrence of ranavirus-associated disease in chameleons"...
https://bioone.org/journals/journal...OF-ZOO-HOUSED-MELLERS/10.1638/2018-0044.short
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Just me doing some research, but reptiles metabolize ammonia to uric acid through the Inosine pathway (not the urea cycle like mammals)
It’s interesting that inosine affects this virus in a positive fashion. I suspect it’s due to renal dysfunction. Bad kidneys = better environment for Ranavirus

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37632058/
 
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