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March 28th San Diego Pet Vaccine Seminar Drs. W. Jean Dodds and Ronald Schultz
Award-winning author, Jan Rasmusen, has organized a vaccine seminar to be held in San Diego, California on March 28, 2010 to benefit The Rabies Challenge Fund. World-renowned veterinary vaccine research scientists, Drs. W. Jean Dodds and Ronald Schultz, will be the featured speakers at this all-day event. Detailed information on the seminar can be found at
Pet Health Seminar Benefiting the Rabies Challenge Fund . The seminar has been certified to give 6 CCPDT Continuing Education Units to dog trainers.
West Virginia Rabies Law -- House Bill 4407
HB 4407
hb4407 intr has been introduced in the West Virginia House Agriculture Committee by Delegates Guthrie, Butcher, and Maypenny. This bill would change the current 2 year rabies booster requirement for dogs and cats to the 3 year national standard and includes a medical exemption clause for sick animals.
What You Can Do to Help
Contact the House Agriculture Committee members and ask them to pass HB 4407. A message may be phoned in to the Agriculture Committee Chair, Delegate Butcher at (304) 340-3113 or e-mailed to all the committee members at:
sargento@mail.wvnet.edu;
gbutcher@mail.wvnet.edu;
aevans@mail.wvnet.edu;
rcanter1@mail.wvnet.edu;
bob.beach@wvhouse.gov;
brent.boggs@wvhouse.gov;
tom.campbell@wvhouse.gov;
mike.caputo@wvhouse.gov;
jeffeldridge96@yahoo.com;
nancy.guthrie@wvhouse.gov;
djhall@mail.wvnet.edu;
mmany@mail.wvnet.edu;
dale.martin@wvhouse.gov;
jim.morgan@wvhouse.gov;
rickymoye@wvhouse.gov;
marypoli@mail.wvnet.edu;
rrodigh@mail.wvnet.edu;
rswartzmiller@hotmail.com;
danny.wells@wvhouse.gov;
lwillia1@mail.wvnet.edu;
eanders1@mail.wvnet.edu;
bordel@mail.wvnet.edu;
lireland@mail.wvnet.edu;
carol.miller@wvhouse.gov;
john@overington.com
Rhode Island Rabies Regulations
The Rhode Island Rabies Control Board meets February 22 at 9:30 a.m. Room 370, Division of Agriculture, 235 Promenade Street, Providence-- New 3 year rabies regulations approved at the April 2009 meeting are to be discussed.
http://sos.ri.gov/documents/publicin...2010/84585.pdf Concerned pet owners should make every effort to attend this meeting and ask their friends to do the same.
If you cannot attend the meeting, but want to voice your opinion, please contact the Chair of the Board, RI State Veterinarian, Dr. Scott Marshall at
scott.marshall@dem.ri.gov phone: (401) 222-2781 and ask that the regulatory change to the 3 year protocol be made effective as soon as possible.
Jefferson City, Missouri Rabies Law-- Action Alert
On behalf of The Rabies Challenge Fund
Duration of Immunity Study for Rabies Vaccine - Rabies Challenge Fund and pet owners in Jefferson City, Missouri, I have sent the letter below in an effort to change the city's annual rabies booster requirement to the national 3 year standard.
What You Can Do to Help:
Contact the Mayor
jlandwehr@jeffcitymo.org (573) 634-6304 and City Council (573) 634-6311
fergusk@lincolnu.edu;
kferguson@jeffcitymo.org;
mharvey@jeffcitymo.org;
rkoon@jeffcitymo.org;
jpenfold@jeffcitymo.org;
bscrivner@jeffcitymo.org;
bpope@jeffcitymo.org;
estruemph@jeffcitymo.org;
ccarroll@jeffcitymo.org;
dklindt@jeffcitymo.org;
rmedin@jeffcitymo.org and ask them to change the annual rabied booster requirement to conform to the 3 year protocol recommended by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Rabies Compendium and ask your pet-owning friends to do the same.
Letter to Jefferson City Mayor
February 5, 2010
Mayor John Landwehr
City of Jefferson
John G. Christy Municipal Building
320 East McCarty
Jefferson City, MO 65101
RE: Chapter 5 Article III. RABIES CONTROL Section 5-45. Vaccination of Dogs, Cats
Greetings Mayor Landwehr:
Jefferson City’s Ordinance Chapter 5 Article III. RABIES CONTROL Section 5-45. Vaccination of Dogs, Cats mandating annual rabies vaccinations is counter to the recommendations of the American Veterinary Medical Association [1] and the Center for Disease Control’s National Association of State Public Health Veterinarian’s Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control 2008 which states that, “Vaccines used in state and local rabies control programs should have at least a 3-year duration of immunity. This constitutes the most effective method of increasing the proportion of immunized dogs and cats in any population (50).” They specifically warn that, “[n]o laboratory or epidemiologic data exist to support the annual or biennial administration of 3- or 4-year vaccines following the initial series.”
This ordinance mandating that the “rabies vaccination shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of vaccination,” overrides Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 322, Section 322.010 Protection Against Rabies, defining "immunized" as being “immunized against rabies at the expense of the owner or custodian by the administration of antirabic virus by a licensed veterinarian,” and for which the Department of Health defers to the recommendations of the Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control under “Vaccination of Animals” in their Rabies Surveillance.