From:
sukieferret
Date: 2002-03-01 23:08:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Re: Distemper or flu with bad skin problem....
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "craigkrisowen"
<craigkrisowen@y...> wrote:
>My son did have a flu bug. He had a very mild case but there
> is a bad strain going around where I live along with Valley
>Fever.
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Influenza is primarily a respiratory disease and you said that the
vet did not hear anything wrong. They do catch influenza and
precautions must be taken to protect them from it: keeping
infected people away, loads of hand washing, etc.
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> first noticed the tiny scabby like bumps on his back a few days
> before he got sick...His skin looks like it has the specks of ear
> mites on it. He did have ear mites and was treated in his ears
>but his ears are still brown.
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If you use the search engine here at the website
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list
you will find that there is a great deal of information on treating
for ear mites in back posts.
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>I tried to clean them right before he got
> sick but couldn't get inside the canal clean so I was going to
>take him in and have the vet do it. Right after that he got sick. I
>could clean the ears and the next day they were brown again,
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Did you point htis out to the vet and have them check the wax
under a microscope?
Were any skin scrapings taken to be tested?
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> Would one shot be enough to avoid distemper?
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No. The kits need a series of three. The timing for these cna
also be found in back posts and in ferret materials: purchasing
papers, books, etc. Look in the papers you would have been
given at purchase. Sincehe has no neurological symptoms I am
hoping that you are lucky and it is not CDV, but if there is any
chance that it is CDV then he must be separated from the others
and you need to take precautions just in case. Also, you need to
vaccinate the others if needed.
Hope this makes enough sense; I am runing a fever of my own.