Why is the Quarantine Program about 8-10 weeks long?
It allows the quarantined mice time to show clinical signs of any disease they may be carrying, and time for pathogens to infect the sentinel mice which are housed with them. The sentinel mice are then tested for any disease they may have caught from the quarantine mice. This also gives RAR time to treat the quarantine mice for possible parasites, since parasites may be present at extremely low levels which could not be detected prior to shipment.
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