alpacas: [AlpacaTalk] Choanal Atresia NOT BEW

Oh look at this. A new study is being performed investigating the
Multiple-Malformation Syndrome in Llamas and Alpacas Associated with
Choanal Atresia.

http://www.alpacaresearchfoundation.org/papers_reports/
armien_anibal.html

9/1/08 to 8/31/09

So maybe we'll have a better idea of what we're dealing with, rather
than speculation and hushed conversations.

Here's another page to read about CA:
http://www.shagbarkridge.com/info/ca.html

One more thing, everything I have read about CA and CHARGE syndrome
in humans says they really don't know the cause. In camelids, they do
believe it is heritable, but how, and why? COuld it be that a cluster
of CA crias on a farm might be caused by feed or management
practices, such as using Formula 409 to clean water buckets? We just
don't know yet.

Here's my request that we wait until the science is in to make
decisions. Don't panic. :)

Heather

Also, don't sling mud. Yet.

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