CDV is much more easily passed by direct sharing or inhalation of body
secretions, and those are the more usual routes for transmission, but
notice that in the Washington State shelter they noticed that having
cages near the garbage can with ferret waste may have played a part
and so did using a shared little box scraper.
Sent on to Ann and shared here:
My eyes are tired now but I actually recently (and earlier) posted some
links to info on CDV survival time outside the body. The fatty envelope
is the key factor, so in light, heat, and dryness the virus can last
for as short a time as a half hour outside the body, but when frozen
it can perpetuate for years, allowing for the possibility of
cross-contamination, too.
In
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
I'll leave the subject line box empty but look for
"fatty envelope"
in the message body box
from addresses beginning
sukie or sukiec
NOTICE that people who have not had measles and not had measles
vaccines might be able to be silent CDV carriers, too.
Here you go but you will find even more using those search
configurations and my eyes are too tired for me to check those
now, too, but I knew this one had a lot in it:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL5340
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/http://ferrethealth.org/archive/http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.htmlhttp://www.miamiferret.org/http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/http://www.ferretcongress.org/http://www.trifl.org/index.shtmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump
off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall)
[Posted in FML 7105]
