From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-05-14 19:07:46 UTC
Subject: RE: Along the Vacc question threads
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1451771.1116097666742.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> The reason to separate the vaccines is so that if a ferret does react you will know which vaccine the ferret was reacting to. You won't know that if they were both given at the same visit.
Paty knows her stuff, of course...
Also, if the ferret turns out to be one of the really rare ones who reacts to more than one vaccine due to a shared component in those vaccines then the load level is lower with one vaccine than with two so the degree of reaction could be lower.
(To put it in human terms if that isn't clear, if you get allergy shots or know someone who does: this is akin to the way that some people have trouble with their allergy shots during times that things to which they are allergic are blooming -- the load in increased -- so the allergists cut back the amount during such seasons for those people.)