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	Information about general traveling Travel in Spain In the majority of the independent communities, the antirabic vaccination is obligatory. It will have to take to the official, state or communitarian record sanitary with the vaccinations updated in the last year, is not obligatory the passport although the law the same forces to the identification of some dogs majors of 20 kg or to all, following the autonomy where it is. Some races may be forced to have an insurance of civil responsibility for third people and the proprietor this forced to own a special permission for the possession of may be dangerous races . Flying in Spain Besides the mentioned thing previously, the majority of air companies, authorities demands the passport as guarantee of identification and health of the animal, that is to say, must take referred the microchip, the antirabic vaccination as well as the certificate previous clinical examination to the trip (it replaces the old veterinary official certificate) Travel in Europe It is necessary to have the communitarian passport. The passport must point out: Up-to-date antirabic vaccination. Transponder/Microchip of identification. Other vaccinations, although nonobligatory, according to the country, updated. Internal deworming, worms flat (equinococcus) and round (ascaris) Cleaning against of fleas and ticks. It must consist the date and hour of treatment. Some countries force to make a clinical examination to the pet, previous to the trip. It is advised to at the most make it 5 days before to the entrance in the country in particular (the health certificate can lose its validity). This certification also consists in the Communitarian Passport Travel to United Kingdom from Spain May be take to the passport, with microchip and up-to-date vaccinations. It is necessary to fulfill the protocol strictly established next, before entering the United Kingdom. 1. To identify to the mascot with microchip ISO. 2. To vaccinate with antirabic vaccine accepted by the DEFRA. 3. To reflect all this in the communitarian passport. 4. To extract blood sample between 3 and 4 weeks, as later minimum to send it to realise a test of antibodies against the rage to one of the laboratories authorized by the DEFRA. In Spain it is possible to be sent to the Laboratorio de Sanidad del Estado, Camino del Jau s/n Santa Fe (GRANADA). It they only can send the veterinarians who perform the extraction and in some autonomies through previous authorization of the corresponding delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture (Cattle ranch and Fishing). 5. They must spend at least 6 months from the taking of the blood sample for the serologic test to the possible entrance in the United Kingdom. 6. The serologic test results must give to a rate of antibodies superior to 0,5 UI/ml. 7. During the 48 - 24 hours previous to the entrance the animal will have to be dewormed internal and treated externally and it will have to be reflected in the passport consisting the day and the hour of the administration of the medicine as well as the product and the lot. 8. One of the pages of the clinical examination must fill up and be certified that this in optimum conditions of health. 9. The following vaccinations against the rage will have to be realised before the period end that expires the vacunal cover in order not to have to repeat the serologic test and to return to pass the group of forty of 6 months post extraction from the serologic sample. Detailed information for proprietors: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/pets/procedures/owners.htm Information for veterinarians: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/pets/procedures/support-info/guide.htm OBTAINING OF SAMPLES FOR SEROLOGIC DEGREE OF RAGE (New norm) INFORMATIVE NOTE: SHIPMENT OF SAMPLES FROM SERUM TO THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF HEALTH ANIMAL OF SANTA FE FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF ANTIRABIC ANTIBODIES POST-VACUNALES. Regulation (EC) 998/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council, by whom the animal health norms applicable to the animal displacements are approved of company without commercial spirit, establishes the requirements to follow in the animal displacement of company between EE.MM. and for animal coming from third parties countries. With respect to the shipment of samples, one will be due to consider: a. For the displacements coming from third parties countries (not mentioned in Annex II of the Regulation) it is required that the animal certifies a vaccination that has validity in accordance with the recommendations of the manufacture laboratory, and that the sample is taken by a at least authorized veterinarian 30 days after the vaccination (period of seroconvertion) and three months before the displacement . Despite this term of three months will not be applied in the cases of reintroduction of a company animal whose passport certifies that the valuation of post-vaccine antirabic antibodies was made, with a positive result before this animal left the territory of the Community . The animal will have to be correctly identified by means of microchip (or tattoo) before the last vaccination. b. In the cases in which the destiny is the United Kingdom, Ireland or Malta, and during a transient period of five years, the authorized veterinarian that issue the passport, it will have to certify that one took place, in an authorized laboratory, a valuation of post-vaccine antirabic antibodies ; in the same way the effective national norms in these countries will be due to also consider, under which the taking of sample for the mentioned analysis must be carried out six months before the entrance of the animal in the destiny country (he is recommendable to consider the period of seroconvertion mentioned in the section a). The identification of the pet will have to be by means of microchip. c. Also of transitory form like in section b, for trips to Sweden and agreeing with the exigencies established by Norway, the taking of sample for the analysis of post-vacunales antirabic antibodies must carry out at least 120 days and not more than 365 days after the last vaccination against the rage. For a detailed information, you can consult in Internet: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/animal/liveanimals/pets/index_en.htm In agreement with the mentioned Regulation, when it is necessary the accomplishment of a valuation of post-vacunales antirabic antibodies, the analyses will be able to be carried out in anyone of the laboratories authorized by the European Union (to see Annex). The validity of this analytical one is of by life, as long as the program of revaccinations is fulfilled. In case the Official Veterinary Service of the Independent Community (or another Competent Authority) prescribe the analysis in the National Laboratory of Reference of Rage Animal in Spain, the steps to follow and the indications for the preparation and the shipment of samples will be: 1. The sample required for the analysis is blood serum (minimum 0.5ml). Its shipment will become in agreement with the effective norm, in conditions of air tightness and refrigeration or freezing; it is responsibility of the Clinical Veterinarian (who will guard to avoid the contact between the avenue that contains the sample and the documentation) and will be sent through an urgent service of transports to the following direction: LABORATORIO CENTRAL DE SANIDAD DEL ESTADO DE SANTA FE. CAMINO DEL JAU, S/N 18320 SANTA FE (GRANADA). SPAIN Fax: +34 958 441200 2. In the same package or on wadding, the Clinical Veterinarian will include the form that is enclosed for the shipment from samples to the Laboratory properly complimented and signed with the data of the passport of the animal donor: name and address of the proprietor, identification and age of the animal and file of vaccination against the rage, including all the data of the last used vaccine (it marks, lot, date of lapsing, etc.) not to forget the date extraction of the blood sample of the vaccinated animal. A form for each sample will be used. 3. The Clinical Veterinarian will put in contact with the Veterinary Service the Official corresponding Premises (or another Competent Authority), which will prescribe the analysis to the Laboratory and will be able to do it in the corresponding section of the form that accompanies the sample. The samples that lack the required data or the mandatory prescription of the Veterinary Services the Official Premises are not analyzable. 4.The result of the analyses will be communicated to the Official Veterinary Service that prescribed the analysis. Before any doubt (logistic, technical, administrative, etc), it consults with this Official Service, that as well this coordinated with the Official Laboratory. Travel to America It is necessary to have the communitarian passport. The passport must point out: Up-to-date antirabic vaccination. Microchip of identification. Other vaccinations, although nonobligatory, according to the country, updated. Internal Deworming for flat (equinococcus) and round (ascaris)worms External treatment front of fleas and ticks. It must consist the date and hour of treatment. In the case of having the intention to return of America, it must have the degree of antibodies realised before starting off (superior to 0,5 UI/ml). It can become in Spain and is been worth in the same terms that the British case stops, the following vaccinations against the rage will have to be maked before the period end that expires the vacunal cover in order not to have to repeat the serologic test. To return to the European Economic Community It must have the degree of antibodies made before starting off (upper to 0,5 UI/ml). It can become in Spain and is been worth in the same terms that the British case stops, the following vaccinations against the rage will have to be applied before the period end that expires the vaccine protection in order not to have to repeat the serologic test.

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