Coalition Against Fur Farms is posting an article which reveals the importance of vaccines to the survival of the US fur industry. This article appears to reference the mink vaccine manufactured by Merck (see previous articles on this site).
CAFF is intent on unveiling the complete vaccine supplier facet of the fur farm industry. For some context, please see this week’s other posts on United Vaccines and Merck’s research facility outside Omaha, Nebraska.
This is the article, from Sandy Parker Reports, SEPT. 19, 2011:
“A VACCINE SHORTAGE IS PUTTING MINK AT RISK ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN RANCHES BECAUSE OF PRODUCTION PROBLEMS AT THE CONTINENT’S ONLY SUPPLIER.
The vaccine is a protection against such diseases as distemper, virus enteritis, botulism and bacterial pneumonia and usually administered before the mink are 10 weeks old, while they are more easily handled. The source, believed to be a subsidiary of Merck, has had to delay delivery because some batches have not tested out. It was estimated that nearly all U.S. ranches got their supplies, but only about 80% of the Canadian farms received theirs.”