To Aurora:
 
>My ferrets are predominately home-bodies, with the blue-moonness venture
>outside.  They have not received their second booster because the vet I
>trusted moved away...  I have not gone back, not to mention the commute,
>since I don't know how to drive... should I be stressing about distemper???
 
By all means, yes.  We wouldn't spend so much bandwidth on a subject of
little importance.  Distemper is 100% fatal in ferrets, is common in the
environment, and your ferrets have no protection.  Currently, we are seeing
an outbreak of distemper in California, which I hope to see some material
from shortly.
 
Find someone who knows how to drive and go to a vet soon.....distemper is
one disease we don't play around with in ferrets...
--
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP              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 1328]