Rabia
Hello to all: it back makes a pair of months, happened a fact that did not take much public trasendencia. Concretely in Easter in a farming establishment of the province of Bs.As. (100 km of the city of Bs.As.) a cat suddenly became aggressive and injured to its proprietors, was sacrificed and made the analysis of its brain rage with the stock of insectivorous bat was detected.
Therefore it is necessary to continue recommending the antirabic vaccination of cats although they do not leave the house or department, which is the excuse of much people not to vaccinate (and including of some veterinarians).
Speaking with the Dr Molina of the Institute Pasteur de Bs.As., it commented to me, whom this year already 2 bats with rage in the city of Bs.As found and in 2000 and 2001 were 6 cases in every year of bats with rage.
Please they consider this possibility of I infect of the rage the cat and we continue insisting with the vaccination.
For the veterinarians who act in mass media, he would be interesting to raise the subject and to lower to line vacunatoria.
A hug
Rubén
Dr Rubén M. Gatti M.V.
Bs.As. Argentina
www.aamefe.org.ar
to rgatti@movicombs.com.ar
Tel: +54-11-4801-3161