From:
leese10ferts
Date: 2001-12-14 15:13:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Are annual vaccinations still necessary?
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "kath0524" <katharine@n...> wrote:
>I addressed this on the FAIML (I
> believe) and Dr. Karen Purcell (I think) said that United Vaccines
> does do titer tests on ferrets so there must be some values out
there
> somewhere. It's been a while but I'm almost positive it was Dr.
> Karen. Please forgive me if I'm wrong. I think the vet would draw
> the blood and send it to United. Maybe Dr. Karen could address
this.
She was one of the vets on the panel at the AFA's ferret symposium
that Erin and I attended. I recall them all being in agreement that
titers were not a perfect way of monitoring ferret vaccination
levels - not yet anyway.
It's definitely something that would be nice in the future. I think
that in life of death situations with ferrets who violently react to
vaccinations, the guessing game of the titer tests are worth it, but
outside of that, probably not.
Alicia, you bring up a good point though - if there are no accurate
titers, how DO vaccine companies determine what level of vaccination
works for ferrets?
I'm curious as well.
Lisa Shortley