then I wonder if it might also eventually be a treatment for ferret coronaviruses or point to possible other treatments if it turns out to be too dangerous to use, while we all continue to hope that vaccine work pans out. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drug-candidate-takes-new-aim-mers SHORT QUOTES chemical, called K22, halts growth of a panel of different coronaviruses, including the strains that cause MERS and SARS, researchers report May 29 in PLOS Pathogens. K22 is the latest in a slew of drug candidates to counter coronaviruses, for which no proven drug treatments currently exist. But K22 stands out from the crowd, says Stanley Perlman... University of Iowa in Iowa City... could take years of testing and development, says study coauthor Volker Thiel, a virologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland. "We have no idea how the drug will behave in the body." END QUOTES Here is the study itself: <http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1004166> In ferrets there is the enteric coronavirus (ECE), and its mutant, the systemic one which presents like dry FIP presents in cats. See http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Presentations/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Publications.php [Posted in FML 8158]