Dogs and cats can get melioidosis so it might be that ferrets may be
susceptible.

See PubMed for those references:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

See here about the increase in ProMED (a different resource):
http://www.promedmail.org/

by clicking open

12 Jun 2012 Melioidosis - Australia (03): (NT)

in the menu on your left. There is also a snail borne disease that has
increased, Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

For some reason recent messages don't come up in the separate FHL
Archives today, but I found this at the FHL website:

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/17394

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
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)

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