ECE is anything BUT rare in the U.S.  There were people in Canada who
thought it was rare, but mostly it had not be tested for.  It is unknown
whether it might be in Europe because there have been some times when
vets had suspicions but the right testing was never done the last I
heard (but that was some time ago).  I don't know about elsewhere.
 
ECE is introduced usually from an infected kit because kits can pretty
often be asymptomatic (though they still take damage from it), but the
infected ferret does not have to be a kit, and sometimes the person
brings the infection home after handling infected ferrets.
 
This will help:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ECE/ECE.html
 
For insulinoma info I STRONGLY SUGGEST:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/insulinoma.pdf
 
Both do have surgery/necropsy photos in color so if those bother you,
print them out and up a paper stick'm over the photos so that you are
sure to read the pieces completely.
 
GREEN STOOLS DO *NOT* INVARIABLY MEAN ECE.  *ANYTHING* which causes
rapid transit of stools will result in green stools, and some of the
other often seen things like coccidia or giardia can be hard to spot
in the waste so multiple specimens may need to be examined.
 
-- Sukie (not a vet)
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[Posted in FML issue 5115]