I am using the following code to print the taxonomy term in the views page header.
<?php
$view = views_get_current_view();
$term_name = array_pop($view->args);
$term_name = str_replace('-', ' ', $term_name);
$possible_terms = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($term_name);
$term = $possible_terms[0];
print '<div class="term-desc">';
print filter_xss_admin($term->description);
print '</div>';
?>
The issue I'm having is that it works with all of the terms that have more than one word, but on the terms with only one word for the term name, it won't print the description.