From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-07-27 16:18:39 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Prayers for Kim and Josie
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
This is terribly sad and I am so sorry that Josie is gone.
For everyone's future reference:
Yes, a bacterial infection that becomes too bad can go septic.
It is too bad that pathology was not done to know what to avoid,
but of course general caution can also be used.
Shiga toxin producing E. coli can also become hemorrhagic:
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/dc/Epidemiology/stec_fs.html
and other references
Certainly, if the suspect raw mouse fed was bad that could have
caused food poisoning and some of those diseases can be shed.
There are also diseases which wild rodents can carry if the ferrets
ever had any of those:
http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct_rodents.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/index.htm
If Josie already had a preexisting vulnerability then she may have
been unable to fight bacterial infection as well as healthier ferrets;
it isn't unusual to need to be more careful with those who have
other medical problems but it can be harder when one isn't known.
I might as well spend the time transcribing. Since i have very little
free time people will need to do their own cross-referencing.
We already have carried a list of the diseases found in wild pigeons when that info was
needed. Maybe having a list of diseases found in wild rodents
handy here and in the FHL Archives (address in my signature lines
and it is very easy to use) may help someone else in the future so
a little bit from the CDC pages which I think are of the pretty
common diseases:
Diseases directly caught from rodents:
Hantavirus (most of North and South America)
Hemorrhagic Fever w Renal Syndrome (primarily eastern Asia,
Russia, Korea, Scandinavia, western Europe, and the Balkans)
Lassa Fever (western Africa)
Leptospirosis (worldwide)
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV) (worldwide)
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever (western siberia)
Plague (Yersinia pestis) (Western US, South America, Africa, Asia)
Rat Bite Fever (Streptobacilus moniliformis or Spirilum minus)
worldwide
Salmonellosis (worldwide)
Arenaviruses (parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil)
Tularemia (worldwide)
There are also diseases that can be spread indirectly from rodents
after they have been the hosts (and wild rodent parasites may tackle the next nearby
things including a predator): Babasiois, Arboviral Encephalitides, Colorado Tick Fever,
Leishmaniasis,
Ehrlichosis, Lyme, Murine typhus, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever, Powassan Encephalitis, Scrub
Typhus, Rickettsialpox, Relapsing Fever, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Sylvatic typhus,
Western Equine Encephalitis.
I don't know how many of those ferrets can get.
According to
http://www.wvu.edu/~rc/acuc/occ_rodents.htm
NON-feral rodents have low chance of zoonotic diseases. Wild
ones are a different story, of course, so when ferrets interact with
wild rodents or their waste (feces or urine) and get sick then vets should know to adjust
care and inquiry accordingly.
May also be of interest:
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-DI/ZVBD-nat-disasters.pdf
from a further CDC search:
Cryptosporidium
Rat Bite Fever in Florida from CDC site: search on
Florida +zoonotic +rodent
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5351a2.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol4no4/mills.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no3/childs.htm
and many more
The direct zoonoses link in this dept isn't working but indirect is:
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Disease_ctrl/epi/diseases.htm
Go to the bottom and click it open. The list includes Anthrax,
Arboviruses, Avian Influenza (Not the nastier strains of it which
haven't hit the US yet), Botulism, Brucellosis, prion disease, Cryptosporidiosis, E. coli
0157:H&, Gairdiasis, Hantavirus,
Histoplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Leptospirosis, Lyma, Plague, Q Fever, Rabies, Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever, and Toxoplasmosis
Each can be clicked open to learn more about it.
and here is an article on Emerging Zoonotic diseases in Florida
(those in other states can look up their own health department data because I am trying to
find things which may be useful for Kim and
her fellow Floridians right now)
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/zoonotic/
It was a conference but some subject lines may be useful
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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