From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-01-28 19:20:50 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] yet another good health reason to keep tobacco products away from ferrets
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Certainly, we all by now know that ferrets can get lung malignancies=20
from the second-hand smoke as well as the rest of the same problems=20
humans can get from that. AND we all by now know that nicotine=20
poisoning can occur, and much more about dangerous aspects of the=20
components, but new research indicated that sampled tobacco was rife=20
with hundreds of bacteria and ferrets can get infections from some of=20
those bacterial genera.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55678/title/Cigarettes_might_be_=
infectious
including this short segment:
> Among the large number of germs whose DNA laced these cigarettes=20
> were: Campylobacter, which can cause food poisoning and Guillain-
> Barre Syndrome; Clostridium, which causes food poisoning and=20
> pneumonias;Corynebacterium, also associated with pneumonias and=20
> other diseases; E. coli; Klebsiella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and=20
> Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, all of which are associated not only=20
> with pneumonia but also with urinary tract infections; and a number=20
> of Staphylococcus species that underlie the most common and serious=20
> hospital-associated infections.
>
> Sapkota=92s team lists many of these =97 including the most prevalent =
> bacteria in the tobacco they studied =97 in a paper published early,=20
> online inEnvironmental Health Perspectives.
>
Here is EHP:
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/home.action
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
HAPPY: http://www.6footsix.com/my_weblog/2010/01/high-fives-for-happiness.=
html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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