To Jill concerning the tissue samples:
 
        Jill - the results of what the ferret had - a tumor in it's spleen and
parvo - are not from me.  I am hoping to get a look at those slides or samples
of tissue.  Parvo is an enteric disease of dogs which ferrets cannot contract.
A tumor of the spleen is very unlikely in such a young ferret.  I would suggest
that it is instead the producation of blood cells in the spleen, which we
commonly see in young ferrets and is considered a normal finding.
 
        I talked with your vet this A.M. and she relayed the results to me.  It
seems that a M.D. read out these slides instead of a veterinary pathologist, so
I would not trust the accuracy of these results.
 
        Now we have to work on getting a copy of the slides or blocks for me to
get a look at....
 
       Bruce Williams, DVM                 Department of Veterinary Pathology
       [log in to unmask]         Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
       (202) 782-2600/2602                 Washington, D.C.  20306-6000
[Posted in FML issue 1108]