plague: Click open 12 Jun 2012 Plague - USA (02): (OR), septicemic in the menu on your left in http://www.promedmail.org/ Of course, preventing heartworm in ferrets is reason enough. Its a miserable way to die. Map of heartworm infections rates in the U.S. http://www.heartwormsociety.org/download/Incidence-Map-2010.pdf Heartworm, flea prevention and ferrets: http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL10409 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL10403 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL353 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG17935 http://www.miamiferret.org/heartworm.htm Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://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) [Posted in FML 7455]