From:
katharine@nettally.com
Date: 2002-09-28 16:36:58 UTC
Subject: RE: Distemper Vaccinations
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20863348.1033231018576.JavaMail.root@scandium>
I don't want to get into who has how many references (I have a lot of wildlife rehab references here), but we were talking about protection from distemper, not ADV. The time frame for distemper vaccinations has always been 8 weeks. Recently, it has been changed to 5-6 weeks, based on more current information. Perhaps different antibodies stay in the system longer? I really don't know.
>From raising orphaned wildlife, I do know that colostrum is of vital importance and if the baby doesn't receive it in the first 24 hours, it is of little benefit. I also know that those antibodies are no longer produced (at any significant amount) after 24-48 hours. So, once again, the time of weaning has no bearing on it.
Dr. Williams explained it much better than I can but I believe what I said earlier agrees with what he said. I don't think anyone is saying that there are no antibodies in mother's milk after 24-48 hours. What is being said it that there is so little, it offers little to no protection.
Katharine
Danee wrote:
> However, I have had 3 different medical professionals tell me that the timing for the earliest tesating of kits for ADV is not based entirely on the age, but also on the time of weaning. Dr. Bloom (from Rocky Mountain Labs), Dr. Stephen (of Avecon) and Dr. Ritchie (at U of GA) have all said that you have to wait until at least 2 weeks after kits have been totally weaned, because before that time, there may be pass through antibodies from the mother's milk. So, based on that, it would seem that some antibodies are passed in the milk.