Message Number: FHL11141 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "leanneb39"
Date: 2010-03-18 11:50:30 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: URGENT - Sick ferret with no clear diagnosis.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

Three main culprits in a case like this are. DIMS, Juvinile Lymphoma or FIV (new to the ferret world).
I hope you get some answers.

[What ferrets get is not FIV itself; it is a mutation
of ECE, one which behaves like FIV, so is "FIV-like"
rather than FIV. There has been yet another
genetic study recently released on that disease
looking at another part of the genome with the
same results as earlier: an ECE mutation that
behaves like FIV does. Since both are coronaviruses
it isn't really a surprise that a mutation of one
could behave like the other. The technical term
often being used for it by researchers currently is
"Systemic ECE".

--Moderator]



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