From:
"edward_lipinski"
Date: 2006-12-07 07:09:16 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] In appreciation of S. Crandall's timely response ECE
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Thank you Sukie Crandall for your information and the summary of
research data on ECE. It is impressive and needs to be studied in
detail, at least for me to glean a greater understanding of its mode
of action and its morphology.
Is there any way you could recommend how to determine what any ECE
infected ferret was eating as a constant staple food say 30, 60 or 90
days PRIOR to the first symptoms of ECE being recognized?
I have reason to assume . . . that the ECE causative agent(s) is not
a particular food substance present IN its food, but rather is a diet
factor that is NOT present, which were it present, would inhibit the
gut degradation characteristic of ECE.
You may have known that ECE is quite common in farmed mink. Farmed
mink are nutritionally starved right up to the time they are
harvested. The question is: Is the "pet" mink reared on natural food
as susceptible to ECE as its ilk destined for a fur coat?
And I ask also of the "pet" skunk the same query.
I have reared both the mink and the skunk here with the many ferrets
and suffice it to say, no ECE ever.
I entertain this hypothesis based on my rearing of ferrets over time
(1985) during which no ECE has been experienced and during which no
or very little commercial ferret food has been comsumed, except that
which has been donated with an incomming surrendered ferret.
As you may know the 3rd Koch Postulate has, to my knowledge, not been
satisfactorily demonstrated, insofar that innoculation of the proven
healthy(?) ferret with the suspect ECE organism has failed
replication.
Your comments please, everybody.
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