Authorities are advising proper flea control due to pet who go outside getting fleas with Murine Typhus in Texas; one person has died so far. Remember that the separate FHL Archives (second address in my sig lines) tells which approaches are safe for ferrets and effective. Go to http://www.promedmail.org/ and in the menu on your left click open 26 May 2012 Murine typhus -- USA: (TX) fatal For dealing with -- and preventing -- fleas on ferrets see: http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL8460 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL6927 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL6924 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL2597 Very inclusive expert veterinary post on parasites: http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL353 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG14589 http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG14341 All of the above are by ferret veterinarians. This excellent post is by a non-vet who knows here stuff. I carried it to the FHL for her one of the times that Yahoogroups was having problems: http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG17935 Two of those past posts followed by some other links can be found here: http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL3005 Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7438]
