Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services ( for anyone there who needs copies:
Frankfort 40621-0001 -- no phone given); Michael Auslander, DVM, MSPH;
excerpts:
 
"Kentucky Department for Health Services now recommends that ferrets which
bite humans be quarantined and observed for signs of rabies exactly like
dogs and cats.  An electronic memo was sent to all local health departments
on November 10, 1997, on this recommendation which was approved at the
annual committee meeting of the Compendium of Animal Rabies Control...
 
I do not anticipate any problems with this new policy, and would appreciate
if all organizations associated with ferret ownership stress the importance
of vaccinating ferrets for rabies."
 
New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food (POB 2042, Concord
03302-2042, (603) 271-2404); Clifford W. McGinnis, D.V.M.; excerpts:
"the ferret community will be filing legislation changes to the present
rabies control statute.  Until the law is amended and signed by the governor
the present law is still in force.
 
If an amendment can be attached to a bill that will be heard in this session
the changes could go into effect by mid 1998.  If not it could be 1999."
 
NOTE THE ABOVE IF YOU ARE PURSUING LEGISLATION: It might pay for you to hold
off until your state has a chance to put the policy change into effect on
its own.  Otherwise, things might become untouchable because of pending
legislation;, that's just the way laws sometimes work.
[Posted in FML issue 2144]