1. I had had my shots of gamma globulin, rabies vaccine and tetanus, and sometimes remembered to take my quinine. 2. Although a rabies vaccine was approved for ferrets several years ago, some cities and at least one state, California, still prohibit possession of the animals. 3. Conventional rabies vaccine used for both animals and human beings is based on a rabies virus that has been killed or weakened enough to prevent it from being infective. 4. However, a state program of dropping baits that contained rabies vaccine halted the rabies outbreak before it reached here. 5. Mason said they spread rabies from Mexico into Texas, where officials attacked the problem by air-dropping bait laced with rabies vaccine. 6. No rabies vaccine has been developed for pigs, Baker said, but she added that the fatal viral disease has not been a problem. 7. Researchers are working to get measles vaccines from a tobacco plant, rabies vaccines from spinach and a cholera vaccine from bananas. 8. So even though there is a rabies vaccine for ferrets, a person bitten by a ferret can be in trouble. 9. Thank God for rabies vaccine. 10. The department does not think much of the rabies vaccine. |