I was told that this info was needed due to a very sad situation in someone's home but not which forum was discussing it, so I am copying here. (I just got on line minutes ago; I've been dealing w tonsillitis for over a week now and the fevers and length of time dealing with this now have me sleeping a lot. (I am allergic to some component of general anesthesia so we avoid surgery when possible.) ) Anyway, here is what I sent to her: Re: Campylobacter: Usually when this happens the person fed raw or slightly cooked, not realizing the risk factors, though it could have been from contaminated water. There are a number of things that be caught from raw feeding of pets. Even Intestinal TB has been listed as an emerging veterinary disease in several U.S. states due to more people feeding raw foods. What makes it worse if that campylobacter is also thought to be a causative agent for some serious autoimmune diseases such as Guillian- BarrE syndrome and reactive arthritis. If you look at some of the past discussions on raw feeding you will find this tackled and you will find a lot of links that I don't have time to find now. Here are basics and some more in relation to humans and in relation to the bacterial genus: mode of transmission, prevention, etc. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/campylobacter_g.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no1/altekruse.htm http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap4.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000224.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/engberg.htm http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/new01212.html More can be found in http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org There are 833 results if you Google Campylobacter ferret so you may want to pass on these links, the raw feeding (or undercooked food feeding), contaminated water, and later autoimmune disease risk in a message to these folks. For a similar organism also look up "Proliferative Bowel Disease" ferret or "Proliferative Colitis" ferret [Posted in FML issue 5015]