Fwd: [Jacob-list] Rabies?

[Katherine Wisor]

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> From: katherine wisor <wisor at mac.com>
> Date: Fri Sep 13, 2002  4:17:07 PM US/Eastern
> To: jacob-list-request at jacobsheep.com
> Subject: Fwd: [Jacob-list] Rabies?
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>> From: Katherine Wisor <creeksendfarm at mac.com>
>> Date: Fri Sep 13, 2002  4:11:12 PM US/Eastern
>> To: Susan Nielsen <snielsen at orednet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Rabies?
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>> It hard for me to see the similarity between a vaccine and and  
>> "anti"biotic (used to treat infection)  Bacteria can became resistant  
>> to any treatment used to kill it .  It just builds new defenses as it  
>> were. A vaccine builds antibodies within the body to prevent  
>> infection,  antibiotics kill an bacteria thats already invaded.   If  
>> you're giving the immune system something to fight off a viral  
>> infection before the introduction of the virus it would seem  
>> impossible to have have TOO MUCH protection.  It really isn't the  
>> same.  Baiting has been done in the north in areas where rabies cases  
>> have have been out of control.   Studies over 10 years have proven  
>> the  effectiveness of baiting.  The cost is approx. 34 cents per  
>> bait.  I have been trying for sometime here in Charlotte, NC. to get  
>> someone to listen to the stats.   How can this not be safer than have  
>> even one child be bitten by a rabid animal?   The cost I saw someone  
>> had spent seem much lower than The $1000. + I've heard it cost  
>> without insurance. Go  
>> www.gis.queensu.ca/reporter/rabies-conference/biglerny.html  or  look  
>> under "raccoon rabies" check the sites .  I hope this made sense to  
>> non medical people.  Maybe it just's a "Kathey " and "Katherine"   
>> thing .  Kathey thanks for bring it up !   K  On Friday, September  
>> 13, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Susan Nielsen wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 ACAMDA at aol.com wrote:
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>>>> As for all the wild critters, rabies vaccinations are available in  
>>>> "bait"
>>>> form for areas that have a high incidence of rabies.  You drop it  
>>>> in rural
>>>> areas and the animals eat it and take in the vaccine.
>>>
>>> Boy, gee. This is not directed at Kathey personally (really, it is  
>>> not:
>>> no flames here), but perhaps to any vet or agency that would suggest  
>>> such
>>> a practice, and to those of us who might consider it. It sounds like  
>>> a
>>> recipe for growing vaccine resistant rabies. Since no one can know  
>>> what
>>> dosage is taken by wild animals consuming bait, I would hope the  
>>> practice
>>> is rare.
>>>
>>> Among beekeepers it used to be common practice to feed Terramyacin
>>> in sugar-laced grease patties as a prophilactic against a condition
>>> called Foul Brood. It was done regularly, ritually, as part of the
>>> annual round a management practices, whether or not any of the hives
>>> had a Foul Brood infection. The condition now is that much Foul Brood
>>> is resistant to Terramyacin, leaving us to return to the old method
>>> of treatment: burn the hives, burn the equipment, burn it all.
>>>
>>> I would really, really hate to see rabies arrive at a state like
>>> that. Foul Brood in bees is not going to kill anyone except the bees
>>> (we won't go into pollination losses). Treatment resistant rabies,
>>> on the other hand, is a horrifying possibility.
>>>
>>> Susan
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