From:
ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2009-01-10 01:59:03 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Mystery Illness is NOT ECE
To: ferretbreedersnetwork@yahoogroups.com, ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, trferretcouncil@yahoogroups.com, RNFerrets@yahoogroups.com, hcf-alums@yahoogroups.com, ferretfriendsofpgh@yahoogroups.com
But - we still don't know what it is.
I heard from MSU today, the tissue sent in tested negative for coronavirus.
They did find coccidia in the intestines (which my regular pathologist had not
found), despite my having run samples in the double digits checking for
coccidia, all of which had been negative. I'll be checking again, repeatedly, but
honestly am having trouble fitting coccidia into the epidemiology of how the
disease spread through my household, as well as the fact that the disease
stopped without any treatment being done for coccidia. And pretty much stopped
dead when I started an antiviral medication. At least one other house affected
with the illness had also tested multiple times and come up negative.
It is very possible that this was a virus of a different type, which led to
immunosuppression and a bloom of coccidia in the ferret whose tissue was tested.
The lab has asked for additional samples, so I'll be sending in tissue from
another of the victims of the disease, and we'll see if anything else shows up,
including coccidia in this one as well, which would make it more likely to
have been a highly pathogenic variant of coccidia.
I am glad that it's not ECE - but still stumped and frustrated as to what it
truly was.
Dr. Ruth
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