How do you get 'em back to the yurt after they’ve seen Bangkok?
The OP has still just made the one post total. Hope he hasn’t keeled over dead from some other uninsured ailment.
Yes, I love these threads where somebody asks a question and the debate goes on and on with no further input form the OP.
He has suspiciously made the one post total. Not just in this thread, but overall.
Eh - perhaps he’s just busy. The OP’s grammar and spelling are mostly fine, even though I think the actual content is nuts. Most of the “fly-by” posters really can’t write properly, and I suspect that one of the things that drives them off is the mocking that ensues.
So, in the OP, the guy says he read somewhere that the canine vaccine contains the same stuff as the human one. Is that true? Obviously the human series is more complicated, but why?
It is interesting. On another site people direct questions to self proclaimed experts. Going back a week ago, 6 April through 13 April I answered 15 questions. 3 of them are still unread. I don’t know what happens, whether people find the answer elsewhere, it becomes moot, or they can’t remember their user name and password. 15 questions isn’t enough to base a good average on. On a site like this, they may not like the early answers and go away.
On another site I got disgusted with the stupidity and left. I saw many questions there where somebody gave a terrible answer as the first and the OP never returned. One classic was somebody asking a electrical question. Their rain gutter was hot. The first answer expressed surprise since aluminum doesn’t conduct electricity. would you have gone elsewhere too? Oh, you could rate answers there and she enjoyed a high rating.
IIRC, no. The dog vaccine is what is called a “modified live” vaccine. Meaning they use viral particles that can replicate to promote better immunity (without causing the disease). The immunity is better and longer lasting (which is why in many places they’re switching to 3-4 years between rabies vaccines), but the side effects can be higher.
The human vaccines, as far as I remember, are called “killed” vaccines. They do not contain viral particles that can replicate. “Killed” vaccines are safer but they do not provide as strong an immunity as the “modified live”. They provide good humoral (antibodies) immunity, but not necessarily good cell-mediated (lymphocytes) immunity.
The above is a very brief summary and distinction. Someone else can be free to expand on immunology, immunity, and vaccines.
I think all the states now have the 3 year rabies requirement for dogs. There are some very rabid anti vaccination people out there lobbying for it.
IIRC, it may vary by state/county/parish/clinic. I know, for example, that at least in Louisiana, the vaccination requirements were parish-based. East Baton Rouge parish used to require an annual rabies vaccination and animal registration. They changed it later so that the registration would still be required, but the rabies vaccine (at least for dogs) can be every three years. This was about… 5 years or so ago?
Same with the veterinary hospital at the University of Georgia, they switched to the “every 3 years” program within the last 2 years.
You make it sound like the rabid anti-vaccination is the same as what is going on with people, which is not necessarily the case.
In many cases, studies have been done, and vaccine companies that market the 3 (or 4, in one case) rabies vaccines have shown protective titers throughout that time period. Other rabies vaccines are only approved for one year.
Hmm, my mistake. It seems that there are now killed rabies vaccines for dogs and cats. “Modified live”, though, I’ve read of being used in trials with wildlife populations.
Still, they are not the same product, are produced by different companies, with different cell lines, and have been tested in different animals with challenge studies. I’d be a bit wary of injecting a rabies vaccine that has been tested for safety in another species (just like I’m wary of humans dosing their animal companions with human products willy-nilly).
I recall that – apart from no billboards and no snakes – no rabies was just something else that made Hawaii a paradise to live in. As I recall, all dogs traveling to the state were automatically quarantined for six months, seeing-eye dogs included.
The quarantine thing is still true…it’s a pain in the ass to bring a pet into Hawaii.
Service dogs are now exempt from the quarantine. Note, Only dogs trained by The Seeing Eye are Seeing Eye Dogs. It should be capitalized and not used to refer to other dog guides.