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From: ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2009-01-11 18:51:58 UTC
Subject: Re Mystery Illness is not ECE Re: [ferrethealth] Digest Number 1399
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com


In a message dated 01/11/09 3:46:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com writes:

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.

**Yup, that's what coccidia does. It's an opportunistic little thing - any
illness or stress can cause it to bloom. That's one of the reasons I looked
for it so hard initially.

My issue with this being a primary coccidia problem is that there was no
treatment done at any time for coccidiosis - but the illness has stopped. We'll
know more, hopefully, when the furtehr testing is done.**



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..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 ab

**The kidneys showed no signs of the lesions associated with melamine
toxicity, nor were the symptoms consistent with that. No other signs of known
toxicities were found, and the pattern didn't fit a toxic substance. And as I
posted earlier, a culture for salmonella, as well as other pathogenic bacteria, was
negative.

It's still an open diagnosis, as far as I am concerned, although if the other
tissue comes back with coccidia, as I said, I'll be looking at that more.**

Dr. Ruth

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