From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-08-13 20:05:16 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Mystery death and chronic diarrhoea
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
There are forms of coccidia which are smaller than Isospora that can
be fatal if not treated. One of the Eimeria forms is especially prone
to this and coccidia certainly can exist in ferrets without the ferret
being run down from something else and in the case of the more severe
species it can take off severely on its own.
ECE is also a possibility from what you have written. There are 2
forms of this coronavirus, the GI form which presents as you described
and the systemic form which is far more rare and presents like FIP.
Your description reads a lot like the GI version of ECE.
European specimens HAVE been run for each at:
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
Certainly, there are other possibilities, but these ones are well known.
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/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
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