ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: rabies vaccination

Re: rabies vaccination

jean m. mclean (jmclea@tctwest.net)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 19:05:01 -0700

Trishmare@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-10-10 10:54:52 EDT, you write:
>
> << Rabies is an important vaccination in Wyoming. A few equines have ben
> diagnosed with rabies in this state over the past few years. My horses
> have a big pasture, where lots of other four-legged types roam...For me
> and my horses, whether or not to vaccinate against rabies is not a
> question it's a given.
>
> We don't have too many rabid coyotes wandering round the horse pastures in
> Michigan. And even if we did, I'd have to be convicnced that the threat of
> rabies was greater than the negative consequences of giving my horses the
> vaccine. I have studied vaccines and their relationship to immune
> malfunction and cancer for some years now--and I'm not afraid to say, I'd
> take some powerful convincing.
>
> Trish

Hi Trish,

You know our biggest rabies pool out here is in the skunk population (bet
you've got some of those in Michigan). Racoons also are significant
carriers. Anyhow, rabies vac is cheap insurance for my ponies...maybe
its the altitude ;<)

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