Anita (anon) wrote:
>I know that some FML'ers have tons of info. on some of the concerns stated
>in the letter, such as the rabies shedding period (is Sukie Crandall one of
>them? [...] I am definitely willing to try to get the facts to the CA
>Dept. of Health Services.
 
Good for you.  Your local PH should be sent a copy of the 1998 Compendium of
Animal Rabies Control, available at <http://www.avma.org>, along with the
published skunk strain shedding study, which is:
 
"Pathogenesis of experimentally induced rabies in domestic ferrets,"
Michael Niezgoda, MS; Deborah J. Briggs, PhD; John Shaddock, BS; David W.
Dreesen, DVM, MPVM; Charles E. Rupprecht, VMD, PhD, _American Journal of
Veterinary Reports_, Vol. 58, No. 11, Nov. 1997.
 
Note: You'll probably have to go to the UC San Diego library to get it.
 
Maybe Sukie and the other "quarantine warriors" have additional input.
 
swamp
 
"Who, me officer? What's a ferut? These guys?? No, they're Polish cats."
[Posted in FML issue 2252]