FACTOID 1 Remember way back when Parvo hit dogs? It was violent and deadly. It was very much a mystery of how to treat and prevent it. Well ADV is like a strain of parvovirus. Where did it begin? Well ADV or Aleutians disease hit mink farms quite a while ago. Most mink farms back when, also had ferrets. It was only a matter of time for the virus to mutate to a form that could infect ferrets also. I read that technically... ADV began in the fifties I think, actually. FACTOID 2 There is currently no cure for ADV. As of now there is no possible vaccine either because every time a proposed vaccine has been administered to a ferret... the ferret has actually come down with the virus. Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ For information on deafness in ferrets: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html [Posted in FML issue 3187]