From:
Ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2003-11-14 04:47:36 UTC
Subject: Flu vaccines Re: [ferrethealth] Digest 14 Nov 2003 03:24:31 -0000 Issue 493
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <153.26ca5663.2ce5b868@aol.com>
In a message dated 11/13/03 10:25:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ferrethealth-digest-help@smartgroups.com writes:
It sounds like you picked up something during the week or so before your shot
or in the crowd getting shots since influenza shots are killed viruses
(though, as we all learned recently from a member the nasal vaccine isn't a killed
virus), or perhaps had an exposure to an influenza strain not in the shot.
Actually, my partner had a discussion with our own physician recently about
the flu vaccine, as we were preparing for a ferret show the weekend after the
doctor visit and was told that the vaccine would indeed cause some viral
shedding, so I suspect it is a modified live vaccine rather than a killed. And yes,
it was the injection, not the nasal, that was discussed.
Needless to say, no flu shot was done. We probably ought to get them now,
though, since there's three and a half weeks until the next show...
Dr. Ruth
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