From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2003-06-14 18:07:28 UTC
Subject: RE: SARS and ferrets
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6709552.1055614048431.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 It's funny, I was thinking the opposite.=A0 Since Sars=
jumped cross =
> species already, and one of them was a type of mustelid as far as I remem=
ber, I =
> was thinking Sars would be likely.=A0 The monkey pox seems so far to be k=
eeping in =
> rodents... and primates.=A0 So I was thinking at this point in time it wa=
s =
> unlikely for that.=A0
That's what I said, Rebecca! LOL! At least that is what I TRIED to say! =
Either I had a typing error or you had reading one (or both since we're s=
o alike?) -- not that it matters at all as long as the confusion gets clear=
ed up.
Monkey Pox is very UNlikely. It might be possible and no one knows it yet =
(the sort of thing that has to besaid for any novel illness) but it is dise=
ase of rodents and primates so it is very UNlikely that ferrets would get i=
t.
SARS was found mostly in a specific species of viverrid in that market (the=
Civet Cat), but there were indviduals of two other Families in Carnivora w=
ho had it or had antibodies to it ofund at that same meat market in China. =
Those were the Ferret Badger (a mustelid which is the group that ferrets a=
re in), and Racoon Dog (same groups as dogs). Does that mean that househol=
d animals in these Families are susceptible? Not necessarily. It just say=
s that there might be larger chance of them beign susceptible. =
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