Message Number: YG11740 | New FHL Archives Search
From: daneedv
Date: 2002-03-07 23:23:00 UTC
Subject: Re: CD Vaccines for ADV exposed ferrets

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., Ferret Wise Shelter <ferretwise@f...>
wrote:
> Hello Nicole-
>
> I am NOT a vet but it does seem to me that if the ferrets are
CONFINED to
> an area as is the case with the ADV pos shelter -
> they do not pose the risk of exposure to CD that ferrets in
public
> would.

I have continued to vaccinate all my ferrets for both distemper and
rabies, even the 9 who have ADV. We are in an area where rabies is
prevelent, so even though they stay in my house, I want them
protected in case one should get outside. I am not sure if distemper
is common or not, though. If one of my kids was ill at the time the
vaccinations were due, I would not get him vaccinated, though.
So far I have not had any problems from vaccinating my positives, but
9 is hardly a valid statistical sample.
Danee