From:
cobalt
Date: 2002-02-10 16:44:00 UTC
Subject: influenza
Hi!
I am in several veterinary technician classes, and the main emphasis is
dogs and cats...so I do all my presentations and discussions of ferrets to
give my fellow students info and a good perspective of the "exotics" (and
because I love ferrets!)
A question came up that neither I nor the instructor were able to answer:
If you get the flu virus, it's known that you can pass it to your
ferrets...BUT, can they get the same strain more than once? My reasearch
came up with "ferrets create influenza antibodies 5 weeks after exposure"
but seeing as clinical signs are over in 10 days, can the ferret get
reinfected from you, and can you get reinfected from the ferret?
thanks,
cobalt
cobalt's rule: the smallest gecko will
_always_ grab the biggest cricket.