From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-04-27 00:22:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: IMRAB 3: making sure it is not lost to post-corporate merger product reductions
To: Ferret Mailing List <ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG>, fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
I have heard from Dr. Sandra Kudrak Mitchell who checked into this
that G. Bion Richards, Merial Senior Sales Development Representative
says the difficulty is just a temporary one one in getting product to
the warehouses and should be settled within two weeks.
The problem still remains that mergers have happened and product lines
always are re-evaluated in such situations. In that case it becomes
possible that those who are trying to avoid duplications can miss
noting that a product needed for one species. Merial does need to be
aware that IMRAB 3 and Purevax Ferret CDV vaccine both serve a market
which is lacking in options (or low in options for the second). We
can't afford to have only one vaccine which may disappear. There is a
need to make sure not only that IMRAB 3 remains as a product but also
that there is work done to have an officially accepted alternative.
It is important that any groups with an interest in keeping ferrets
safe and available politely encourage Merial to continue this product
and that efforts be made to have an alternative vaccine.
Many thanks to Dr. Mitchell for following her contacts to someone high
enough to check on this!
[ADDITION:
In a follow-up note Dr. Mitchell says that IMRAB 3 is probably one of the
best selling rabies vaccines in the world so is unlikely to be lost soon , but
thatshe does not know if the Purevax CDV vaccine has high enough sales
for people to feel as secure about that product.
--SDC]
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/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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