From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2009-02-11 04:51:22 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: half dose distemper
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
The rate of reaction with current vaccines is below 5% if I recall
the monitoring figures properly, but work is on-going to
figure out if more years can occur between vaccines.
Half doses of CD vaccines risk the vaccine being useless due to
the immune system having not been properly stimulated to learn
to rapidly respond to an early exposure. See Dr. Ruth's post:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL7897
I highly suggest looking up all posts in the FHL Archives
in which the message body content contains
distemper
and the poster's address (from line) contains
ferrethealer
for a great chance to learn about canine distemper vaccines with
ferrets and where the research currently stands.
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
also
http://www.ferret.org/news/07-april-titer_study.html
in your case you came upon a bad batch. Then the problem
really winds up multiplied. Luckily, Fervac was the worst for
that, as well as having the highest rate of reactions and perhaps
another problem, and that vaccine is no longer on the market.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "dooklady" <cynthia.ritenour@...> wrote:
>
> I had four ferrets at the same time go into shock at the vet when we
> had them in for distemper vaccines. It was found that we had gotten a
> bad bottle of vaccine, but it didn't make me feel better. My little
> buddies were all from different families and different ages, yet all
> went into shock at the same time. I thank my stars for my vet and her
> staff that we did not lose even one. I understand Fervac-d has been
> taken off th market, but I wonder if any vaccine at any dose will ever
> be safe for these little guys. The reaction was severe, they were
> projectile vomiting and diarrea, they all needed fluids, epis and
> manual stimulation along with a person on each one watching every
> little breath until we got through the worst of it. Talk about a
> nightmare.....And these were perfectly healthy, no problem ferrets. If
> one would have been sick like adrenal, we probably would have lost
> it. If a half dose is a possibility, without reaction, but would cover
> them, I would be all for it. There really needs to be some kind of
> option out there if the full dose is so dangerous.
>
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