Lloyd,
If and when we see even the first successful civil prosecution against IBD, I hope to take notice. So far, it has not happened. I am all ears if you would like to map out the legal argument. You may be a legal wiz Lloyd. Maybe not. I have an enormous legal background as well, and am not speaking as an outhouse attorney. To date, there have been "0" successful IBD cases prosecuted.
Dan, I already stated today in an earlier post what I thought I would do regarding IBD in boids, were I to be in that market. Otherwise, your premise is quite faulty. Here is your premise restated:
You discover that you have coccidia in your colony, they are heavily infested but you don’t know which animals are affected. Treatment has to be administered at least twice to be able to control the parasite cycle. Now my question can be answered with a yes or no. Would you continue to ship animals or would you stop selling and shipping until you know you have everything under control?
Sorry this is so difficult, but here's the facts. It is easy to test for coccidia, and I do it all the time. If I were in a momentary situation of knowing it was in my greenhouse, but for some reason not knowing where, I could remedy that ignorance in one afternoon. Wouldn't cost me $200-300 per test, and would have zero impact on my cost-of-production, and could be fixed quickly. As mentioned earlier, there is not a low-end aspect to chameleon import, CB'ing, etc. Secondly, you are wrong as to the treatment of coccidia in chameleons. Its not a "twice" event. Its daily for 5-7 days, with a double dose the first day. Panacur'ing for hookworms, etc, is a "twice" event, 2-3 weeks apart. and frankly pretty routine.
Dan, I outlined how I thought I would approach the IBD thing, were I a low-end boid vendor, in a post earlier today. Here it is again, cut and pasted, and without need of a flawed coccidia analogy:
Hearkening back to your asking what I would do Sammy. Its all conjecture, and I really can't give you an answer in all confidence, as it is easier said than done. It would depend on my existing set-up, the current status of my quarantine procedures, how well I could track the paths of the likely infected animals, and numbers crunching. A very bitter but necessary pill to swallow would be to halt the sale of animals. For how long, and the money spent in the interim to not only safeguard my remaining colony, but also re-establish customer credibility, I do not know. One angle that I would have to consider is whatever I thought the industry standard was for managing this disease. In Allen's case, he faces having to do things that other competitors do not now do, as they aren't wearing the scarlet letters yet. I think a part of my solution, were I to have a similar problem with chameleons, would be to include a section to my website, with all the documentation I could muster, as to what actions we took to minimize such medical problems from this point forward. Undoubtedly, I would also have to charge more for my chameleons, and hope that there's enough of a niche in the market for the peace-of-mind that I was charging for. Whatever the course of action, one would have to be aggressively pro-active. Allen has not been.
Maybe its just me, which is fine, and would not be the first time. But between two threads, and many hundreds of posts on the subject, while I have seen countless criticisms, I haven't seen much on solutions that seemed plausable. Just my warped point-of-view. In the meantime, wherever that view is from, I will hope to see a low-end vendor adopt the protocols suggested and succeed, and/or the successful prosecution of an IBD lawsuit. As you may have guessed, I will not be holding my breath.
. Aside from that, I answered the hypothetical to my heart's desire earlier. My points otherwise were that the solutions profferred did not address the greater problem in the industry, particularly in the low-end market, IMHO. If an when an IBD type of plague rears its head in the chameleon market, I will surely have to deal with it. 
is "on notice",the negligence case, in the event of a re-occurrence, is much easier.
