Recall of over a million pounds for E. coli, a bacterium which has been
documented to be able to cause illness or death in domestic ferrets and
BFFs:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110300891.html>

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071104/us_nm/cargill_beef_recall_dc_5>

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html

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