From:
"Kevin Farlee"
Date: 2011-06-21 18:24:45 UTC
Subject: Tressie has an excellent question, too!
To: "'Sukie Crandall'" <sukie@mac.com>, "'FML List'" <ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG>, <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
We are aware that the RCF breeder in Manitoba uses DISTEM-R-TC, which is
primarily a mink vaccine.
We did have a significant number of RCF ferrets, as the regional distributor
used them exclusively for several years, but has since gone back to Marshall
Farms.
We have collected the data, and are going through it, but we want to make
sure that apparent connections are real before we publish them.
For example, that same breeder's ferrets are known to commonly have
mycoplasmosis infections, and we thought that perhaps that caused a
depressed immune response, thus rendering the vaccine less effective.
Fortunately we didn't publish that idea since it has been disproven: We had
necropsies done on a couple of RCF ferrets, by Matti Kiupel's lab (he is the
one who originally identified this disease), where they ruled out
mycoplasmosis in those ferrets. So that was not the cause, at least not in
all cases.
The other thing is that most of the hard work gathering the information and
organizing it was done by Debbi Walcker and Vondelle, from our shelter, and
they should get to present the data that they worked so hard on.
Kevin Farlee
From: Sukie Crandall [mailto:sukie@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:39 AM
To: FML List
Tressie has an excellent question in:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/15097
I didn't know that the kit vaccine used by that one breeder is a mink
vaccine that does not work well on ferrets. Did you?
Sukie (not a vet)
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