From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2006-07-27 20:13:55 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] some current press releases which may interest veterinary health professionals
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
A new and affordable bacterial detection and identification method
from Purdue using scattered laser light which may interest the health
professionals here:
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/
2006/060727.Robinson.scatter.html
Some air fresheners have in the past been implicated, sometimes
strongly with removal ending the problems, in some respiratory health
problems of domestic ferrets. A current human study might have
relationships to the ferrets' problems; ferrets have been used often
in smoking studies because of similar lung behavior to that of
humans. The abstract at the following URL discusses a chemical
component of such products (some air fresheners, toilet bowl
cleaners, and moth balls) which has been found to have negative
consequences for lung health:
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2006/9019/abstract.html
There is a new Medihoney press release, on using medical-treatment-
quality honey for extremely difficult wounds.
>For several years now Bonn paediatricians have been
>pioneering the use in Germany of medihoney in treating
>wounds. Medihoney bears the CE seal for medical products;
>its quality is regularly tested.
This is a topic which has come up before but in relation to regular
honey and ferrets, but this product would be better:
For English:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uob-hhp072706.php
In German:
http://www.eurekalert.org/staticrel.php?view=uob0727
-- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my
private posts)
Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love
them:
Ferret Health List
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
FHL Archives
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
AFIP Ferret Pathology
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
Miamiferrets
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
International Ferret Congress Critical References
http://www.ferretcongress.org
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