Hi, I would be curious to hear personal stories of people with fuzzies who had ADV. I am testing my baby this week, and, even though my vet says "no way", I am begining to wonder. My vet says my royal fuzzieness is not showing the clinical symptoms for ADV. However; the more I read, the more it seems he is showing tell tale signs. The clinical signs that he is NOT showing, black tarry poo, and death within 3 months or less. All of the symptoms he has suffered from has every vet with a new opinion and not one of them even closely agrees. grrrrr frustrating for sure! Chronic wasting would be the best way to describe his overall symptoms. Slight anemia, enlarged organs [which one vet described as a global immune response], seizures and high protein levels in his blood. Well apparently, these symptoms only "sort of fit" a large number of ailments. I hope, more for the sake of my local ferret community that his test is negative. But, with what I have read so far, I am not so sure that it will come back negative. My baby is only a little over a year old, and he is the first ferret I have "fallen in love" with. It is just killing me, but he is such a valiant guy, he tries so hard.... Terri and Berlioz Sincerely, Terri [Posted in FML issue 4931]