From:
miamiferret
Date: 2001-12-06 18:42:00 UTC
Subject: Re: ECE Question
I posted this already, so I hope that post really did get lost. In
any case... Absolutely do not take Skippy to your friends house as
there is a very real risk of infecting his ferrets with ECE.
Because it's been since April, there is a remote chance that Skippy
won't pass it on, but I would not take that risk.
mike
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "cherrisa" <cherrisa@y...> wrote:
> My ferret Skippy Contracted ECE in April and got over it in May. I
> lost my other one in June to it. My question is that I'm leaving
for
> the holidays and the guy that I normally take Skippy to see has two
> ferrets that have not had ECE. I do know that my house is probably
> still contaminated although I've scrubbed and still scrub. But has
it
> been long enough for Skippy to get over the virus so that I can
take
> her to his house? I don't want him to go through the same horrors
> that I did with this. He just had surgery on his hip and I don't
> think he would be able to feed ferrets every few hours like I had
to.
>
> She'd only have to stay there for about 5 days.
>
> Cherri