<http://living.scotsman.com/features/Pets-Stuart-McMorrow-answers-your.6665227.jp> This video starting about the 9 minute marker would be a useful recommendation for that vet if someone is there in Scotland reading this, and I'd love to know if the fur loss mentioned is bilateral: http://www.vimeo.com/16566253 and many thanks to Jeff of Inner Harmony for recommending it. The first section is on California and ferrets till about the 5 minute mark when CD is covered and then the 9 minute mark when adrenal disease begins as a topic. There is some disagreement about the titer result numbers. Some others recommend vaccinating if the number is below 32 or if it is below 64 since no one yet understands which values indicate protection in ferrets. In dogs it is 32 and below that there might be some protection but maybe not enough to prevent neurological damage. From private communications with one of the study vets it looks like reactions to CD vaccines might tend to be more likely to happen in ferrets whose values are high -- in the thousands or maybe high hundreds. (Note that the reaction rate in ferrets is still close to 1 in a hundred (which is lower than it used to be), so higher than for dogs by a wide margin but not at all like some panic-inducers tend to make it sound when they get going. When possible (so depending on titer results) fewer vaccinations while still being protected are best to reduce rates of reactions further while still preventing one of the most horrible diseases ferrets can get.) I've been told that the funding that makes the Mongo CD study titers extra, extra affordable will go away at the end of December, but it might still be that the best thing a person can do is to run titers starting about every 12 to 18 months after both the 3 vaccination kit series AND the first annual booster. It appears from the lecture by Dr. Gandolfi that 80% to 90% of ferrets form long term immunity (maybe an average of 3 years, maybe longer but 3 years looks pretty reliable). Some just need annual vaccinations. Our Hubble was like that. He just never could develop good resistance. The titers tell which ferrets are like that. Exposure to CD is usually from going outside, or from shoes, or from being around animals who have gone outside, or brought in from shelters and pounds in many places. I'd also like to know how hypothetical that adrenal disease prevention recommendation is, if it is based on Dr. Nico Schoemaker's latest data and if his data is far enough along, or if it is a best guess from the current data at this stage of study. It was to have a first Suprelorin implant at about 6 months (basically time it for before the ferret reaches sexual maturity) and then one each year afterward. It was a great presentation with loads of useful information and true GEMS and I highly recommend watching it! There has been an interesting discussion on the FHL about Canine Distemper and vaccinations: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/14158 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6916]