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well, here's one for you to chew on! My girlfriend works for animal control and it is mandatory for employees to have the rabies vaccine and they do accept titers. When she took her newborn in for his first exam she asked for a rabies titer for him and YEP! Amazing!

Thanks for posting the link about titers Dr. Falconer. I've done titers a few times on our pets. The most interesting one was the one done on our 10yr old dog who hadn't been vaccinated since she was around 1yr. (due to HA). Surprise! She still had a good level of antibodies. I wonder if the vets that still want to vaccinate every yr. or 3 yrs. would do the same thing to their own human children. Isn't it the same principle? That it just isn't necessary.
Peeved Tech, are you aware of the study being done by Dr. Ronald Schultz?

Everything in that article we learned in school. I would have been a lot more impressed if you had referenced a study in which animals with low titres were exposed to the disease and a full immune response was mounted without the animal getting clinically sick. I'm not interested in hearsay and anecdotal evidence. Titres might not be perfect, but they're certainly not useless, and in my opinion, better to be safe than sorry.