From:
julie johnson
Date: 2010-02-13 23:44:22 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] human Mono
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Okay we have been hit with Mono. My oldest son got it first. Now he lives in
Edmond going to college there, but of course as his mom, his brother and I
went up there to help take care of him. They said he had a secondary
infection but I never got the diagnoses for that. They gave him rocephlan
shot and levaquin. He is doing much better but now my youngest son has Mono,
bronchitis, and sinusitis. He lives here with me and is at least 6 scripts
and over the counter meds. I have been trying to lysol the house, keep him
away from the ferrets but he does walk through the house.
My guys are mostly free roam except my elder ferrets and they get play time.
I have a big bottle of clavomox on hand (un-mixed my vet just in case). I do
know that ferrets can catch upper respiratory infections but what about
Mono. I have never read a case but there is also something new and I could
have missed it.
If they can catch it what would be the protocol. I do have some elder
ferrets with adrenal and insulinoma so I know they would be at the highest
risk. So far no one has shown any signs of runny nose, sneezing, coughing.
--
Crazyferretmom (julie johnson) and the 11 fuzzbutts
In Memory of Sidney Sue, Slinky, Allie Boy, Polo Man, Roscoe,
Fiona,Milo,Piggy,Jazzy, Sammie, Scooter,Bear, & Abby : (
Gone in body, not spirit.
[I am not a pathologist, but an internet search does not find
any papers on mononucleosis in ferrets, though certainly
they can get bacterial sinus infections from humans. Hopefully,
we will hear more.
-- Moderator(SDC)]
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