Influenza viruses are prone to alterations. Here is info on the current strain and its behavior in ferrets who were purposely co- infected with other influenza strains. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901091731.htm PLoS article (and I hope that these are not search specific URLs): <http://knol.google.com/k/daniel-perez/fitness-of-pandemic-h1n1-and-seasonal/2e4ii3cnzi06d/2?collectionId=28qm4w0q65e4w.1&position=17#> from http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/28qm4w0q65e4w/1# If it is not reachable that way but you want to read the article then go to http://www.plos.org/ and under > ../Announcing PLoS Currents (Beta) click open the blue words that say > PLoS Currents: Influenza Then scroll down to > >Fitness of Pandemic H1N1 and Seasonal influenza A viruses during Co- >infection >By Daniel Perez, Jianqiang Ye, Matthew Angel,Lindomar Pena et al (9 >authors) >On June 11, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a new >H1N1 influenza pandemic. This pandemic strain is as... and click it open and in addition to finding resources there ones can be found by going to PubMed and searching for ferrets influenza http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez 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/ 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 [Posted in FML 6443]
