Continued FAVN drama
Mar. 3rd, 2011 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hazliyaSo, the good news: the Kansas State rabies lab called to tell me that my sample had, in fact, arrived, and was viable. They called about a week and a half ago to tell me this, and I was ecstatic.
The bad (odd)? news: My vet called me yesterday to tell me that the results were in. Now, this raises a few red flags. One, the website says that the test takes up to five weeks to administer, and they only just entered my sample into the system as of tops, two weeks ago.
Two, a normal blood titer for rabies comes up 0.5-0.8 IU/mL. When I asked the tech what the number read, she told me that it was 4.65. I was confused. That's like blowing whole numbers on a breathalyzer, except for rabies. Something has to be wrong, I said. So she's going to fax it over so I can look at it.
I'm hoping that it's just some other number, like the exact sample size they needed. The vet did send 5mL of serum, after all. I really don't hope that it's the diluted result, and Elsa's antibodies measure at 0.465 IU/mL. The minimum she needs to enter Japan is 0.5, and I honestly cannot bring myself to believe that after receiving not one, but three rabies vaccinations in a six-month-period, she wouldn't show the an equal or higher antibody level as a dog who's only been vaccinated once and can pass the damn test.
I called the rabies lab and left a voicemail. Now I'm stressed out, and that's the last thing I need before Intercon.
EDIT: Just talked to the vet and lab - No, her titer showed antibodies at 4.6 IU/mL. Vaccinating her three times while her immune system was still young means that she is fully nine times more resistant to rabies than those considered well-vaccinated. At this point, the lab says, she might as well be immune.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have raised a Superdog.
The bad (odd)? news: My vet called me yesterday to tell me that the results were in. Now, this raises a few red flags. One, the website says that the test takes up to five weeks to administer, and they only just entered my sample into the system as of tops, two weeks ago.
Two, a normal blood titer for rabies comes up 0.5-0.8 IU/mL. When I asked the tech what the number read, she told me that it was 4.65. I was confused. That's like blowing whole numbers on a breathalyzer, except for rabies. Something has to be wrong, I said. So she's going to fax it over so I can look at it.
I'm hoping that it's just some other number, like the exact sample size they needed. The vet did send 5mL of serum, after all. I really don't hope that it's the diluted result, and Elsa's antibodies measure at 0.465 IU/mL. The minimum she needs to enter Japan is 0.5, and I honestly cannot bring myself to believe that after receiving not one, but three rabies vaccinations in a six-month-period, she wouldn't show the an equal or higher antibody level as a dog who's only been vaccinated once and can pass the damn test.
I called the rabies lab and left a voicemail. Now I'm stressed out, and that's the last thing I need before Intercon.
EDIT: Just talked to the vet and lab - No, her titer showed antibodies at 4.6 IU/mL. Vaccinating her three times while her immune system was still young means that she is fully nine times more resistant to rabies than those considered well-vaccinated. At this point, the lab says, she might as well be immune.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have raised a Superdog.
