>From: June Batz <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: DAF-ADV?-ASAP I have posted on this subject already on the FML ... if anybody is interested I will be more than happy to send them further information or answer any questions. In related ADV issues ... several posts of a "private" ADV list (not the one advertised here - a whole different one) have been posted on alt.pets.ferrets newsgroup. Those posts were very "controversial" and posted by "your leaders". If you have any questions, comments, concerns on them - please ask me directly. >Anyone owning DAF ferrets from the may 4th 1999 litter from Pandora and >Roliver please contact me. So far, to my knowledge we have 2 ADV positive >ferrets. I have not tested my Oliver yet..I guess I am thinking ignorance >is bliss. I am wondering if he is ADV pos. if that could have been the >cause for Joe's death, though he certainly was not "wasting" it was a >rapid onset... :( June ... from my knowledge 3 kits from that litter have tested positive. These ferrets are NOT showing signs of illness. E-mail me privately to discuss this further. I highly suggest testing Oliver as I had suggested prior. I am sorry to ask, but did you have a necropsy done on Joe? I think I had asked you once before, but I can't remember your answer. For anybody owning ferrets from me - please test your ferrets. I have tried to contact all of you via e-mail, my sister-in-law via phone, and thru e-mail lists and newsgroups. Most all have responded. Some have been tested and some have not. For those that have tested, I suggest contacting Cornell University at 607-253-3060 for an IFA test. One person that had two ferrets from me that tested CEP positive (and lived with her other ferrets (that tested negative) for a year) tested IFA negative. The test results were 1:8 and 1:16 Parvo Positive. What that means is, in order for them to be positive for an Aleutians parvo virus, their IFA test results would have been in the 1:125 range or higher. Their titers were so low, they could be considered 'trace'. This would indicate, while they do have antibodies to 'a' parvo virus of some sort, they do NOT have antibodies to ADV. So please consider having this test done - as I understand it is fairly cheap as well. Contact me for more information if you are interested. [Posted in FML issue 2984]