THE HUNT IS OFFICIALLY ON!!!!! Today, we have begun itial preparations for identification of the etiologic agent which causes the Green Diarrhea. WHAT WE NEED IS MATERIAL. FECES, to be exact. If you are currently experiencing or know someone whose ferret is (or has) experienced this disease, we need feces and serum. Feces should be sealed in a pill bottle or film container, frozen, and shipped to the address below by overnight or two-day mail. No weekend deliveries, please. Serum from animals with the disease is also required, both from animals experienceing acute disease, and also from recovered animals. This is required to identify minute amounts of virus in feces and hopefully to design a diagnostic test for the disease at a later date. We are also looking for frozen and formalin-fixed tissues from animals who have died from this disease. Animals should be autopsied by your vet AS SOON AS POSSIBLE following death, ast he agent appears to be very transient, and the lesions in the intestine are only visible within 12 hours after death. Your help will save lives. Bruce Williams, DVM Department of Veterinary Pathology [log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (202) 782-2600/2602 Washington, D.C. 20306-6000 [Posted in FML issue 0994]