I just want to say that Susan and Sue have done a marvelous job with this mutant coccidia. Many years have passed since one this bad cropped up, but every once in a while a strain shows up which has massive simultaneous blooms. Many years ago people were not as good at the needed quarantines for weeks of the affected shelters and households. The result was that once a strain spread somewhat widely so a number of ferrets were bleeding to death during the blooms. This time things are going right; these shelters and their vets are really on top of making sure that they stay closed for a while after symptoms disappear, doing a lot of cleaning, and watching to see if re-infection happens. I love it when people do things so right; it saves so many ferrets. Although it is obviously terrible that the ferrets and shelter people are having to suffer through all this they have been doing the right things to prevent an epizooic and that deserves praise. -- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts) Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love them: Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ AFIP Ferret Pathology http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html Miamiferrets http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ International Ferret Congress Critical References http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5267]