FERRET-SEARCH@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG
|
|
Subject: | |
From: | |
Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:44:31 +0100 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
>From: Urban Fredriksson <[log in to unmask]>
>>AD can be carried and passed on by a ferret which does not develop the
>>disease.
>Not at all? All I has heard is that it can take up to one year.
Aleutian Disease virus (ADV) is a parvovirus and is known to cause a
persistent viraemia in ferrets. Some infected ferrets develop signs of
clinical illness such as degrees of ataxia or paralysis, weight loss,
respiratory symptoms, sudden death. Transmission is both vertical
(trans-placental) and horizontal (saliva, blood, urine, faeces and
aerosol droplets through the lungs).
Ferrets giving a positive CIEP test should be regarded as potentially
infective to other ferrets, but will not necessarily develop symptoms of
illness themselves.
>>The only way to be sure that an AD positive ferret does not pass on the
>>disease is to cull it.
>Does it seem in practice like you also have to keep people who've been in
>contact with them away from other ferrets in order to prevent spreading
>the disease?
See above about transmission of the disease.
>Numbers (relative or absolute) of ferrets in England who've gotten
>infected?
1990 - 10.6% of ferrets tested were positive
1991 - 6.0%
1992 - 2.5%
1993 - 11.5%
1994 - 14.0%
1995 - 20.0%
1996 - 20.0%
1997 - 10.0%
[BT]
[Posted in FML issue 2747]
|
|
|