Message Number: FHL1679 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Sukie Crandall
Date: 2007-06-30 20:01:08 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] rabies county quarantines for unvaccinated ferrets, cats, and dogs in 2 MT counties
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG

In addition to the number of cases of various recently in the news in
the Mid-atlantic region:

http://www.kxmc.com/News/139736.asp

> Jun 30 2007 1:03PM
> Associated Press
> BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A dog in Yellowstone County died from rabies
> this week [,]... the second reported case of the disease in a
> Montana dog in two weeks.
>
> A rabid dog in wheatland County was euthanized...
>
> Both counties are now under 60-day rabies quarantines, meaning
> dogs, cats and ferrets that have not been vaccinated against rabies
> cannot leave those counties...

These are the first dog cases there since 2001.

I have noticed a number of free community rabies clinics now
vaccinate ferrets as well as cats and dogs, but i doubt they take
reaction protections. For example:

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/
NEWS03/706300344/1019/NEWS03



Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html





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