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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1185012" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>We vaccinate the wife's horses; not the cattle. Don't know that I could justify it.</p><p></p><p>Principal reason for vaccinating domestic animals against rabies is to place them as a barrier between wildlife and the human population. It's not really to 'protect' the animal - but you're free to look at it with that perspective, if you want...</p><p></p><p>Risk is very low here; may be different elsewhere. </p><p>Part of my day job is performing Rabies testing - we see positive cases in skunks & bats, but not all that frequently - they are the wildlife reservoir in this part of the country - raccoon/fox/coyote may be important wildlife reservoirs in other parts of the country, but we don't see those strains here. We rarely diagnose it in a domestic animals - haven't seen a rabid cow in nearly 15 years, probably 5+ yrs since we diagnosed rabies in a dog; had a rabid horse in 2013(one of 4 cases out of SE MO), have not had a rabid cat in this state in over 10 years.</p><p>Incidence of rabies in domestic animals is very low in the US...is that a testament to the efficacy of the vaccines? I dunno. I still get lots of canine/feline submissions for testing that are unvaccinated animals...but they're not rabid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1185012, member: 12607"] We vaccinate the wife's horses; not the cattle. Don't know that I could justify it. Principal reason for vaccinating domestic animals against rabies is to place them as a barrier between wildlife and the human population. It's not really to 'protect' the animal - but you're free to look at it with that perspective, if you want... Risk is very low here; may be different elsewhere. Part of my day job is performing Rabies testing - we see positive cases in skunks & bats, but not all that frequently - they are the wildlife reservoir in this part of the country - raccoon/fox/coyote may be important wildlife reservoirs in other parts of the country, but we don't see those strains here. We rarely diagnose it in a domestic animals - haven't seen a rabid cow in nearly 15 years, probably 5+ yrs since we diagnosed rabies in a dog; had a rabid horse in 2013(one of 4 cases out of SE MO), have not had a rabid cat in this state in over 10 years. Incidence of rabies in domestic animals is very low in the US...is that a testament to the efficacy of the vaccines? I dunno. I still get lots of canine/feline submissions for testing that are unvaccinated animals...but they're not rabid. [/QUOTE]
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