Re: [Alpacasite] Re: Anyone giving BVD vaccine?

In a message dated 12/11/05 3:23:32 PM Central Standard Time,
sprucealpacas@aol.com writes:

2. This one I do not fully understand but this is what I have been told:
A
female with antibodies can in fact have a PI cria. Even though she has
antibodies, I have been told that the new exposure MAY be able to pass thru
the
placenta and affect the cria. This is especially true of a dam who gave
birth
to a PI cria and is pregnant again. To me this implies a vaccine would not

be effective because I would think a vaccine would work the same as an
exposure - both build antibodies.

Another possibility: In bovine there are two strains of BVD with a multiple
substrains within those two. If camelids are susceptable to more that one
strain, exposure to one strain with an antibody response may offer little or
maybe no protection to a subsequent exposure to the other strain(s).


Elden Harms
Token Creek Alpacas LLC
Sun Prairie WI

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