Re: Rabies

["owens" <owensall@sierranet.net>]

Dear Dr. Newell;
I would like to know what brand of vaccine you use that you have not had any
reactions.  I had all four of my horses vaccinated two years ago and they
ALL developed large, hot, swellings on their necks and were in pain for
weeks.  Luckily they required no treatment other than bute for comfort
reasons, but I haven't re-vaccinated since.  I am still undecided if the
cause of this was the fact that the vet didn't clean the site on any of the
horses prior to vaccinating them(it was October, they were all coated in the
normal pasture grime and heavy coats...I always practically surgical-scrub
vaccination sites myself) or if it was the vaccine itself.  The vet seemed
to think it was the vaccine. I want  to protect my animals from harm, but I
do not want  to harm them in order to protect them from something they will
have no exposure to.
Katee
-----Original Message-----
From: C.M.Newell <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>
To: Trishmare@aol.com <Trishmare@aol.com>; Dbeverly4@aol.com
<Dbeverly4@aol.com>; ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 9:53 AM
Subject: RC: Rabies


>Jean Dodds notwithstanding, you are still in the regulatory soup if your
>legally unvaccinated horse (or other animal) has a known exposure.
>
>And FWIW, in 13 years of vaccinating horses in my practice for rabies, as
>well as sheep, goats, cattle, pigs,ferrets, dogs and cats, I have not had a
>single case of a reaction to the vaccine.
>
>Feel free to diagree on whether to vaccinate *your* horse. But here in the
>woods, in an endemic area, all my animals are vaccinated regularly.
>
>We have had rabid horses here in Massachusetts.
>
> --CMNewell, DVM
>
>
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