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From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:42:57 +0000 (GMT)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Mystery Disease - kits

Author wrote:
> I am at a loss to remember what I heard at the St. Louis Symposium regarding a "new" mystery disease that is killing young kits. Is there somewhere where I can find more information?

This is called DIM, which stands for Disseminated Idiopathic Myositis.

The following is something written by Dr. Katrina Ramsell, a vet that is pretty deeply involved in trying to find the answers to this condition.

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/dimalert.pdf

Dr. Ramsell welcomes calls from VETS who suspect they have a ferret with this condition. Her contact info is in the above article. She may have new information concerning treatment and your vet would do well to call her, as DIM does sound like a possibility given the symptoms you mentioned.

mike





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