From:
"suedvm96"
Date: 2010-03-19 12:43:45 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: URGENT - Sick ferret with no clear diagnosis.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I think you both might mean FIP Like not FIV totally different viruses and FIP mutates often.
Dr. Sue
TLC First Animal Hospital
Chicago, IL
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "leanneb39" <leanneb39@...> wrote:
>
> 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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