From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-01 00:41:17 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] the FIP like illness
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I just heard tonight from a third party that it has been confirmed that the same illness seen in
Europe is present in the U.S. now.
The symptoms are like those of Feline Infectious Peritonitis.
Fortunately, it is rare. Hopefully, it remains so.
The original European team to describe the illness has been studying it since 2004 and will
be speaking about it in December at a conference.
Dr. Matti Kiupel, who was the second ferret expert veterinary pathologist (after Dr. Bruce
Williams) to confirm that ECE is caused by a coronavirus and whose team found the molecular
identity of the ECE coronavirus has been studying the particulars of this current coronavirus
for over a half year in conjunction with others because his research facility has the right
equipment and team to look at something as difficult to study as coronavirii.
I have been told that Dr. Katrina Ramsell who is both a pharmacologist and veterinarian and
who made so much progress in figuring how to treat DIM is interested in tackling treatments
for this new disease.
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