From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2005-05-25 01:58:57 UTC
Subject: Re: colds
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com, xxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
Message-id: <9F870352-96AD-4ABD-904D-782BAE02CBF3@mac.com>
Mostly, it is a matter of semantics. If you look at the past posts
of Dr. Bruce Williams who is certainly one of the world's best ferret
pathologists you will see that ferrets due not get rhinoviruses.
Now, if a person wants to get loose and dirty with how "colds" is
used then that is another matter, and some do prefer to do that
whether because there are other viruses which can cause nasal
inflammation in humans which have not been tested in ferrets (so are
unproven in either direction), or because they go a step beyond that
and lump in bacterial sinus infections as well...
I do not know if the rhinovirus work was done before or after the 60s
(about forty years ago) but I think that determination did come in a
more recent decade.
>I am thoroughly confused. I heard ferrets can and can't get colds;
then I run across an ad from the 60's on ebay from SmithKline about
them >testing on ferrets with colds.
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=21092&item=7157886543&rd=1
>Do they?