Message Number: SG14245 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-06-06 02:39:47 UTC
Subject: RE: very sick ferret with anemia
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6806368.1118025587592.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Author wrote:
>Maybe you could look into this but you should know that the
> transfusion could be fatal. We had a ferret die from this about a yr ago.

Why would the transfusions be dangerous in this case? Ferrets don't have blood groups. Is there something about the condition itself or about repeated transfusions that would cause that?