Message Number: SG17398 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-05-17 14:57:58 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: ferrets v pertussis
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

This looks to be a post that was first approved 11 days ago and the malfunctioning server at Smartgroups burped it out again. Some sharp eyed people have spotted this happening on and off in recent months.

Here is a reply which Dr. Bruce Williams asked me to forward in 2004:

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Whooping cough is caused by a bacteria, Bordetella pertussis. Ferrets and other small mammals can contract a similar agent, Bordetella bronchiseptica (part of the "kennel cough" complex, but Bordetella pertussis has not been identified in ferrets.

Ferrets have not been incriminated as a reservoir for Strep throat, like dogs have been (dogs can be asymptomatic carriers). It is likely that they might carry it, but it has never been investigated.

Bacteria are less species specific than viruses. While a ferret might be infected with a bacterial experimentally, that is far different than carrying a bacteria and transmitting it in an zoonotic fashion (to man). I would hat e to raise a red flag where there is no data to back it up. Ferrets have enough problems as it is.

With kindest regards,

Bruce Williams, DVM

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For a look at a post which combines past info on three things from November 2004 bacwards: Whooping Cough, Strep Throat, and Kennel Cough see:

http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG11650







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