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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

322.0. "MAYDAY: vaccine wanted !" by DECBEL::ROBBENS () Mon Sep 08 1986 09:45

    URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT
    
    Hello everybody in the world,
    
    My brother, being a Belgian veterinary surgeon, has asked me
    as the final possibility of solution to send this 'mayday'
    all over the world:
    
    << Is there somewhere in the world a COMMERCIALIZED vaccine
       against the AUJEWSKY-disease, also called PSEUDO-RABIES
       for application on carnivores (let's say dogs and cats) ???
       There are vaccines available, but always for herbivores
       (let's say cows and horses).
       It would allready be of a great help just knowing the name and
       address of a company commercializing such a vaccin.
       This is really a very urgent call                        >>
    
    Hoping to get some usefull replies from somewhere,
    
                                                   Thanks,
    
                                                     Luc.
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322.1Try Any Veterinarian!PSGVAX::CICCOLINIMon Sep 08 1986 20:2117
    Dogs and cats are routinely vaccinated against rabies, whatever
    kind of rabies that may be, psuedo or otherwise.  I'd suggest you
    call any veterinarian and they could tell you.  I know my feline
    gets shots every year, and rabies is one of the things she is
    protected against.
    
    I can't tell from your note whether or not you live in the US, but
    if you do, you can just call any local vet or, if you live in the
    Northeast, call Tufts School of Vet Medicine in Boston.
    
    I assume you're looking for the pharmaceutical company that produces
    the stuff and not just a vet who can dispense it.  Why can't your
    brother find it in Belgium?  It seems so commonplace over here!
    
    I have a friend at Tufts I can contact if you reach brick walls.
    
    Sandy
322.2More complicated than you think, Sandy !DECBEL::ROBBENSTue Sep 09 1986 07:1719
    Hi Sandy,
    
    Thanks for replying, but I'm afraid that the problem is not that
    easy as you presume.
    
    Pseudo-rabies is not rabies at all! (that why it's called PSEUDO).
    It seems to be extremely rare on carnivores, and by the replies
    I allready received by mail (all of the USA), even in the States
    there seems not to be a remedy going farther yet than the experimental
    stage.
    
    By the way, I'm living in Belgium, and I agree, vaccinations against
    rabies (the real one) is indeed very commonplace.
    
    Thanks for the reply, I hope we both have learned a little, altough
    for the moment there seems not to be a solution coming on somewhere.
    
    					Luc.