From:
catfood77@earthlink.net
Date: 2003-11-12 06:34:36 UTC
Subject: Re: Tuberculosis & BARF diet (& zoonoses)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2363494.1068618876321.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Does anyone have any info on "zoonoses" and ferrets + raw meat? I have seen the miracles of the BARF diet and been trying to switch the kids -and they love it!) I am very concerned about this Tuberculosis and raw poultry.
> In ferrets the bovine version has not been seen among ferrets in the
> U.S. since people stopped feeding raw ungulate meat or raw ungulate
> offal with the infection and stopped feeding unpasteurized milk
> infection through the feeding of raw poultry, and that it also points
> out that agricultural efforts to stem Mycobacteria infections in
> livestock have hugely reduced such infections in ferrets,