Message Number: SG5865 | New FHL Archives Search

From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2003-08-23 20:59:30 UTC
Subject: RE: Possible ECE
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8149505.1061672370947.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

The single best source I know for ECE information is:

http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ECE/ECE.html

There is also more help at these websites:

http://www.trifl.org/medical.shtml (from which I gleaned some of these addies)

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ece.htm

http://www.ferretcentral.org/faq/med/green.html

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/

http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html

http://www.texasferret.org/ece.shtml

and

http://www.ferretvet.ca/ECEPage.html

If a ferret was not exposed to the coronavirus till later it is possible to have ones in the same household break with the illness later, OR you or someone else may have unknowingly carried it in on clothing or something else, and one ferret may have been earlier exposed without your knowing it and have an immunity as a result. Kits often have silent cases which can still do damage to their small intestines.

There are a number of other possible causes of diarrhea with mucus, from Eosinophilic gastroenteritis, to colitis, to other diseases, to certain parasites, etc. It can be hard to tell them apart though, and often one fecal smear will not suffice to find the cause. The trick is that they need different medical approaches.