Note in all of the articles that studies have shown that FRSCV/FSCV is NOT the same virus as the cat disease (which is due to the coronavirus FCoV) but it has similar symptoms, and the genetic results on the virus resemble ECE/FRECV/FECV (which is due to the coronavirus FRECoV) when tested and read on to see more than the necessary alphabet soup (though it might prove useful for people who want to be clear while doing less typing that instead of typing out "ferret FIP-like illness" or "ferret systemic coronavirus" or even "the new ferret coronavirus disease" they can just type FSCV or FRSCV): For general reading and for vets to be able to get in touch with the veterinarian and pharmacologist who is researching treatments for the disease this is a brand new Ferrets Magazine veterinary article: <http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/ferrets/ferret-health/emerging-disease-ferret-fip.aspx> To submit specimens so that people know whether to try the treatment approaches that are under study click the relevant section of the menu in http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ More: http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diseases/Gastrointestinal.pdf http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Presentations/Ferret_Coronaviruses.pdf (slow upload so may be us or it just may be slow in general; it is a pathology lecture and the section on the systemic coronavirus/ Ferret "FIP" begins after they show the slide with part of the first page on the 2006 article on the "Novel Coronavirus" which is about 1/3rd of the way through. Some people will want to scroll past the necropsy and histology photos but read the slides with text of things like symptoms while others will want to see a combination. Text slides go into symptoms which is what may people want to know, and I know that people have asked in the past about a possible phylogenic tree for coronavirii and there is one in there about 80% of the way down.) In this one a late slide indicates that FSCV may not be a mutant of ECE but may instead be a very closely related coronavirus: <http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Presentations/Enteric_and_Systemic_Coronavirus_Infections_in_Ferrets.pdf> Yet more in: http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Presentations/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Publications.php 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 "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7217]
