My rabbit survived botulism poisoning is she now immune to it?
According to this article by the Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; An inactivated toxoid is used to vaccinate horses against botulism. Though it does call for an annual re-vaccination.
My rabbit has survived botulism poisoning. Should I assume she is now immune to botulism? Presumably a near fatal encounter with the poison would generate a stronger immune response than an inactive toxid, possibly resulting in a life long immunity.
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How you can read in the mentioned article, the vaccination there only helps against one of 8 (since 2013 one of 9) kinds of botulism bacteria.
If you are certain, it was bacteria caused botulism, you can now assume which of them causes the botulism of you rabbit, and the other 7 (8) can cause a new botulism on the same rabbit.
Another uncertainty is: The immune system of your rabbit only acts against the bacteria. It can not act again the toxic substance itself, I think. If your rabbit eats food with toxins of this bacteria again, it will get ill again. (There may not come "new" additional toxins, because the immune system kills the source bacteria, but they made an amount toxins in the food before got eaten).
To the question, if it causes a live long immunity... This bases on a lot of circumstances. It is not connected linear with the power of immune response.
(I have studied some basics of biology, but I had never heard about "vaccination against toxin", only against bacteria. But I am very curious how it could work!)
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