I don't know and don't see it in the FHL Archives, but some other members of carnivora have gotten some strains at least to the point of developing antibodies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11697188 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11257996 but that does NOT mean that they may be able to spread it, and it does NOT mean that they may be normally able to get a serious infection so you'd have to do your own reading on that and let us all know. Two places to start: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/ http://scholar.google.com/ Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Moderator's note: Shron asked if the virus was common in the NYC area. Note the virus isn't particularly common to begin with, but for the 14 years ending in March 2007 there has been a total of ONE case reported in New York state per The CDC. BIG] [Posted in FML 6172]
