Dear Laurel: >Help, I have three ferrets extremely ill with diarrhea. I know this has >nothing to do with the adrenal/insulinoma context of this list but I saw >someone else on here saying about their ferret Barry having bad diarrhea. >I almost lost my smallest girl and none of them are out of the woods yet. >They are on clavamox and flagyl. Is there something new and deadly going >around? My vet was very vague and said it wasn't ECE but had no idea what >it was. I recently introduced a new ferret into the group after he was >pronounced healthy and I thought it was stress at first but now all but >one of my older ferrets are ill. Any ideas? Once again (I find myself saying this all of the time) - why is it not ECE - ferret coronavirus, the agent of ECE is by far the most common cause of outbreaks of diarrhea in households - not one ferret, but multiple. There aren't a lot of diseases that cause that presentation. Have there been any new introductions, visitors, or even a visit to the pet shop within 2-3 days of the outbreak? What is the characteristics of the diarrhea? Are you force feeding them, and have you switched them to a bland diet? If you have no idea what something is, it is generally not a good idea to say what it's not. At this point, I don't think ECE can yet be ruled out.... With kindest regards, Bruce Williams, dVM (Cross-posted from the FAIML for good reason....) [Posted in FML issue 3293]