Re: Re: Rabies

["Keith and Anna" <desautels@cnetco.com>]

My mule has had a reaction to a vaccine, but due to her murderous
tendencies, we dont know which one it was.  all my other horses get the
rabies vaccination at a separate time from all the regular vaccinations, and
i have never had any reactions to the rabies. in addition while i was
working as a vererinary technician in the Army, we had to vaccinate about
200 head a year(every horse on a military base is required to have a rabies
vaccination.)  and we never had a reaction to it.  We used Imrab3 and that
is what i requested when i moved here and found out that the veterinarian
did not even carry a vaccine labeled for horses. When your horse was given
the rabies vaccination, was it labeled for horses? some rabies vaccines are
labeled for use in dogs and casts only and this is the vaccine that my vet
wanted to give to my horse before i requested the Imrab3.


> 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
>
> >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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