Message Number: SG6186 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: Pam Sessoms
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
To: julie_fossa@yahoo.com
cc: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: necropsy report - ADV?
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44+UNC.0310011204550.47140-100000@login7.isis.unc.edu>
Hi Julie!
Thank you so much for your extremely helpful reply, especially in terms of
the "what now?" questions. I have passed everything along to the owner.
> Other illnesses can mimic the symptoms of ADV. Since it isn't possible
> to get an ADV test on the deceased ferret at this point, they might
> pursue having the slides re-cut and sent out to look specifically for
> ADV lesions in the tissues.
I wonder what those specific lesions would look like... I was reading Dr.
Williams' Pathology of the Ferret notes on ADV, and an awful lot of the
things he mentions in there were mentioned in this necropsy report. I
personally suspect it was ADV, but of course, I really am not qualified to
make such judgements, and I still don't know if those specific changes can
be caused by other diseases.
> This is just one more reason testing all your ferrets periodically and
> at the onset of illness as a rule-out is so important.
AMEN!
Best wishes always,
-Pam S.
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