www.doglistener.co.uk/depth-annual-dog-vaccination-dangers
Please research before you give annual vaccinations. They are not necessary or recommended and have been linked to the rise in canine cancer. The annual vaccination schemes are a scam and do more harm than good IMHO. You can do a titre test to check immunity anyway. See vaccicheck.
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The internationally respected World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) issued guidelines in 2009 stating quite clearly that these core vaccines should normally be expected to last for life. This is their (6) WSAVA Protocol
Look at the BSAVA the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. This is their (7) BSAVA Protocol.
How often do you take your dog for vaccinations? Do you get a reminder a few weeks before your annual checkup, If so check your vaccination card and see what has actually been vaccinated?
Are you aware that the Vaccine companies state that these vaccinations should be every three years? However, there are exceptions to this, the main one being Leptospirosis, more commonly known as Weil's disease which a far dangerous part of this disease. More about the efficiency of that later.
Leading immunologist Dr Ronald Schultz states: “It has been common practice since the development of canine vaccines in the late 1950′s to administer them annually. The recommendation to vaccinate annually was based on the assumption that immunity would wane in some dogs, thus to ensure immunity in the population, all dogs required revaccination since it was not practical to test each animal for an antibody.
"Little or no research has been done to demonstrate that the practice of annual revaccination has any scientific value in providing greater immunity than would be present if an animal was never revaccinated, or was revaccinated at intervals longer than one year.”
“In 1978 we recommended an ideal vaccination program would be one in which dogs and cats would be revaccinated at one year of age and then every third year thereafter. That recommendation was based on a general knowledge of vaccinal immunity, especially the importance of immunologic memory and on duration of protection after natural subclinical or clinical infections as well as on limited studies we had performed with certain canine and feline vaccines."
"Since the mid 1970′s, we have done a variety of studies with various canine vaccines to demonstrate their duration of immunity. From our studies, it is apparent, at least to me, that the duration of immunity for the four most important canine vaccines (core vaccines) that the duration of immunity is considerably longer than one year. Furthermore, we have found that annual revaccination, with the vaccines that provide long-term immunity, provides no demonstrable benefit and may increase the risk for adverse reactions.”