From:
"Carol Rickel"
Date: 2004-12-01 21:08:21 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] shots
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-ID: <04549F659527FD40BC81885CFFBB29CD263CCF@stmary.AECF.ORG>
No - none of my ferrets is related. They have all been rescued and/or
adopted - and from different sources/locations/owners.
My vet documented and reported every case of severe/dangerous reaction
as have the various members of our ferret club.
I remember reading an article from Dr. Williams about how he NEVER takes
any of his own ferrets to shows or other public venues, and how he takes
his shoes and clothes off if he's been exposed to other ferrets before
handling his own. I, too, made sure I did this every time I got home
from working at the shelter or from the shows. I don't however, do this
every time I've been out, and come back in. I should be more careful!
Carol in Bel Air
-----Original Message-----
From: sukiec@optonline.net [mailto:sukiec@optonline.net] =
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:54 PM
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Author wrote:
> Hi
> After bad reactions in my babies time and time again (severe vomiting,
> diarrhea, etc.), my vet and I decided that my ferrets would NEVER
AGAIN
> get any shots!!!!!
If your ferrets are related to each other then realize that the
propensity to get anaphylactic reactions runs in families. When I have
heard of clumps where a lot were involved there has consistently been
either of two things going on:
1. The ferrets are related
2. There was a mishandling of a batch of vaccine or a bad batch for
some other reason
BTW, those reactions and batch number in such situations should be
reported to the USDA and the manufacfturer.
Do be usre to keep eveeryone's shoes away from your ferrets, too. CDV
can be caught from aerosol sources by ferrets (in experimentation in the
50s and 60s), and can certainly pick it up from shoes which track it in.
In experiments of vulnerability if something like 70% of a colony were
immunized then the risk of CDV going through even the vulnerable members
was greatly reduced due to disruptions in exposure. (BTW, ferrets shed
the virus before they show symtoms.)
There appears to be some immunity for a while after the vaccines, but
for at least one of the vaccines there is not immunity or resistance for
as long as the older and no longer made vaccine types which were
"avianized", i.e. grown in eggs. (We had a case locally years ago of
ferrets who had not been immunized for something in the range of 2 to 3
years who survived it but had lasting neurological damage.)
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