From:
Motor City Ferrets
Date: 2009-01-10 06:01:43 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Mystery Illness is NOT ECE
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Having had a deadly outbreak of coccidia in our Shelter that killed 7 of 42 and caused months to get under control (with many more sickened along the way) I thought the same thing you did when I read your message: that your ferrets were compromised somehow and coccidia took advantage of the situation, not that coccidia was the problem. I can tell you that at no time in all our dealings with coccidia did we ever have critters get so sick, so fast - with the added extreme dehydration. What I learned about coccidia thanks to our horrible experience was that any critter can have it on board at any time; just a wee pocket hanging out in the intestines waiting to cause trouble.
Did you pursue toxicology? My first thought was melamine in the food. After all, melamine killed how many dogs/cats in recent years? And from what I read about some of the cases, critters got sick pretty quickly, having been effectively poisoned. ??? Or someone else mentioned salmonella...another good thought I reckon, or something along those lines...but I'm not familiar enough with pathology to guess what you might be able to test for...?
Nanci
Motor City Ferrets
www.motorcityferrets.org
[Moderator:
Melamine symptoms are kidney ones, just as
raisin poisoning causes renal symptoms, though
there obviously are differences in types of
presentations.
Of course, there are different types of possible
poisoning, but it is very hard to track those if
there is not already an idea of what may be
involved.]
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