Out of curiosity, has anyone on iNaturalist had any experience with vaccinating other organisms? I remember from my Virology class that one method of vaccinating wolves for Rabies was dropping bait filled with the vaccine. Does anyone else have any more knowledge on this area in general? Thank you …

I work in vet med. Every vaccine is going to have a recommended route for best response. Each individual will also have a variable immune response, which is partially why pet animals should be examined prior to vaccinating, but also why, expenses aside, titers should be checked prior to re-vaccina…

I worked on a rabies baiting project once. We had a ton of what looked like ketchup packets with vaccine solution inside them. They were covered in fishmeal, and we drove around and chucked them out the windows at regular intervals. My car stank for weeks, so I’m not interested in doing that again!

We just give the black footed ferrets shots for rabies, distemper, and plague. I have heard of distributing fat balls with distemper vaccine for mesocarnivores, but I was told it has a pretty low efficacy and that’s why we don’t do it at the refuge I work at.

The 2002 IUCN Guidelines for Nonhuman Primate Re-introductions has a portion on vaccinating primates prior to releases and there are research papers that look more closely at specific non-human primate vaccines. Pretty much every primate rescue center I know of vaccinates their animals. An example…

For non-mammalian stuff , DOC in Aotearoa NZ does heaps with birds, especially kākāpō each have their round of jabs and in the past tokoeka as well when avian flu was a greater perceived threat. Mostly direct handling methods and through jabs far as I’m aware, though, since they’re all such directly …

I used to volunteer at a wildlife rehab where prior to release we would vaccinate coyotes for distemper and rabies (if I remember correctly) via injection. I think it was also done for bobcats and mountain lions but those weren’t common and I never saw it done first hand.

There’s quite a bit of experience with rabies baits for various animals. I’m most familiar with bait for foxes but only because a friend ran a program. There is a body of research that says that it can be effective. Here are two papers dealing with fox programs: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13…

I was just thinking about big animals, i.e. related to domesticated livestock. How would you vaccinate a herd of wildebeest against rinderpest?

You may find your answer here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720037/#:~:text=TCRV%20was%20one%20of%20the,culture%20infectious%20dose%20was%20immunogenic . It appears that rinderpest vaccine is only produced in injectable form.

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