Hi!
 
I am in several veterinary technician classes, and the main emphasis is
dogs and cats...so I do all my presentations and discussions of ferrets
to give my fellow students info and a good perspective of the "exotics."
A question came up that neither I nor the instructor were able to answer:
If you get the flu virus, it's known that you can pass it to your ferrets...
BUT, can they get the same strain more than once?  My reasearch came up
with "ferrets create influenza antibodies 5 weeks after exposure" but
seeing as clinical signs are over in 10 days, can the ferret get
reinfected from you, and can you get reinfected from the ferret?
 
thanks,
 
cobalt
(in a nonlegal state, but seeing ferrets everywhere!)
[Posted in FML issue 3688]