>my vet informed me that as for rabies vaccines, it is illegal to vaccinate
>ferrets for rabies even with Imrab because rabies vaccines were tested with
>ferret cells. He said that maybe if they develop a killed one that they
>might legalize it, but he's not sure.
Run, don't walk to find a new vet for your ferret. IMRAB-3 was approved for
use in ferrets back in 1990. It is a killed vaccine. It is listed in the
Compendium for Animal Rabies Control as being approved for ferrets, and has
been every year since the 1991 edition (if I remember correctly). Your vet
should have copies of those and really should be reading them if he is
vaccinating animals against rabies. For a vet not to know that is
inexcusable in my opinion.
Dick B.
[Posted in FML issue 2112]