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2/29/2016 <br />New guidance for pets exposed to rabies <br />!FAVM <br />A TM <br />Our Passion. Our Profession. <br />JAVMAnews <br />March 01, 2016 <br />New guidance for pets exposed to rabies <br />Cats and dogs overdue for a vaccine can have a booster <br />shot <br />By Katie Burns <br />Posted Feb. 10, 2016 <br />New guidance in this issue of the JAVMA advises that cats and dogs that are exposed to rabies and are overdue for a <br />vaccine can have a booster shot followed by an observation period rather than be subject to quarantine or <br />euthanasia. <br />The recommendation appears in the 2016 edition of the Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control (J <br />Am Vet Med Assoc 2016;248:505 -517) from the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, along with <br />other updates from the 2011 edition. Dr. Catherine M. Brown, co -chair of the compendium committee, described the <br />compendium as a series of best practices that jurisdictions can choose to follow. <br />The update pertaining to out -of -date vaccination status follows publication in the Jan. 15, 2015, issue of JAVMA of a <br />report on "Comparison of anamnestic responses to rabies vaccination in dogs and cats with current and out -of- <br />date vaccination status" (JAm Vet Med Assoc 2015;246:205 -211). According to the abstract, "Results indicated that <br />dogs with out -of -date vaccination status were not inferior in their antibody response following booster rabies <br />vaccination, compared with dogs with current vaccination status." <br />https: / /www.avma.orglnewsljavmanews /pages /160301a.aspx ?utm_ source = javma- news &utm_ medium= email &utm campaign= gen &PF =1 1/ <br />