From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-15 01:58:22 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Respiratory infection?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Well, what you do depends on WHAT TYPE of infection your husband shared with the ferrets.
First off, we know it isn't a cold because they don't get rhinoviruses. (Check past veterinary
pathology info on this if you want to verify.)
If it was influenza that usually runs its course pretty safely in ferrets on its own but a few get
secondary infections or pronounced symptoms and need care.
A bacterial sinus infection can move lower in the respiratory tract and that does warrant a vet
appointment and often chest x-rays because ferrets can get pneumonia or pleurisy, or both
sometimes with almost no symptoms until they are on death's door. (We've been there with
one who even sounded okay but when x-rayed she was found to be in serious danger. A
couple of simultaneous antibiotics saved her.)
We tend to take coughing seriously when the ferrets do it, even though we know that if lucky
it is just influenza.
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