Dr. Robert Wagner is seeking $2,000 to investigate a possible way of vaccinating ferrets against their coronaviruses. The ferret coronaviruses are ECE which can cause damage that might lead to IBD and perhaps even set the stage for future intestinal malignancies when damage is great enough. The systemic coronavirus mutant of ECE is the one which presents in ferrets like FIP does in cats. Dr. Robert Wagner is a professor at U. Pitt, and you can see abstracts of some some of his ferret journal articles here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Wagner+ferret There are a few by other scholars with the same last name, but you can weed those out from their initials. If you or your group can fund this study, please, privately give me your complete contact information (email, snail mail address, phone, etc.) or that of your group. I will then pass it on to Dr. Wagner. [Posted in FML 8101]