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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-02-26 01:13:44 UTC
Subject: Re: ill 7 month old from Marshalls
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5355959.1077758024752.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
> Sorry, but that's not true. I'm in western Pennsylvania and have seen two of
> these, and in fact I think I saw the first one reported - that was last
> winter.
Okay, well, that is how to know.
If there is one thing I learned back when I still was anticipating a future in primatology (before my education was cut short by illness) it was to NOT invest much in the way of emotions beyond curiouslty in hypotheses because most hypotheses don't pan out. (I've heard a top flight physicist say that a researcher who is failing more than 95% is picking problems which are too hard and any who is failing less than 75% of the time is picking problems which are too easy.) People are good at spotting patterns but many are false leads, then things turn around once more parts of are found of the puzzle.
> Unfortunately, my suspicion is that the little seven month old has a high
> level of probability for this - whatever it is. (wanted to put evil, rotten,
> disgusting disease, but I doubt that's what it will end up being named...)
I greatly respect your input on this; you've handled or consulted on a number of these ferrets. Have you ever seen any who were 3 weeks into the illness and didn't already have high white counts and anemia? This ferret was still having normal blood work at that point unless I misread earlier posts.
> Dr. Ruth
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Find it. Fix it. And fly again.
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