Message Number: SG6248 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-10-09 10:55:49 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] ECE Recovery Advice
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2767728.1065696949395.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

There have been instances where someone has thought a mutated form of ECE is responsible for a "new disease", but to my knowledge, there has been nothing to support that.

Is there anything new on this topic?

mike

Author wrote:
> I have seen this a lot. It appears that the new addition is a carrier of a
> mutated form of the virus and the older ones had never been exposed so they
> got sick and she may never be sick. An instance that she might break is if
> she is exposed to a new unrelated ferret that is carrying a form that she
> has not had.