I just got off the phone with the head virologist at the university of Guelph. The CEP testing will go forth in Canada. This will make it a LOT more cost effective for us to test our ferrets. Testing was originally planed to start next week but the lab didn't realize that ferrets had a strain of ADV all of their own and they only purchased the mink strain from United Vaccine. The lab is now in the process of obtaining the ferret strain and is happy to work with ferret lovers across Canada. The test will cost about $30 and will include up to 20 samples (20 different ferrets) which makes testing for shelters in Canada a whole lot nicer and for you fuzzy lovers out there with multiple ferrets nicer too! Until the university has the appropriate ferret strain of ADV to test for, please do not send samples in, you'll be testing for the wrong virus. In the long run (in a couple of months) they will also include a PCV test (a test to find the DNA of the virus in a sample of blood) if they have any positive tests. I'll keep you all up to date on the progress, but we should be set to go in a couple of weeks, once the university gets the right strain from United Vaccine :) Very happy! Miss Randy Melanie Belair President The Ferret Aid Society www.ferretaid.org <http://www.ferretaid.org/> Join us for the IFC Ferret Aid 2006 Conference! Book early, almost 1/2 sold out!! http://www.ferretaid.org/events/ferret_aid_2006.html [Posted in FML issue 5049]