Three Snakes That Shook the World

A novel virus of a type that was thought never to infect snakes at all has been identified as the possible cause of the common but mysterious “inclusion body disease“, which kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—and three snakes named Juliet, Balthazar and Larry. UCSF’s Joe DeRisi described this work, which paves the way to