Pet vaccine is very common nowadays. Through the years, medical professionals developed a technology to cure or at least prevent them from harming the host.
Vaccination has long been an effective way to reduce disease burden in pets and farm animals and is a key tool in maintaining animal welfare and health. Vaccines continue to play an increasingly vital role in preventative health and disease control programs in animals.
All those who care for animals, including pet owners and farmers, have a duty to protect animal welfare and health under their care. However, animals, like people, are susceptible to a wide range of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Vaccines are available for many of these diseases, making them preventable or mitigating the losses or long-term consequences of the disease. This is particularly important for those diseases which have complex, limited, or no treatment options available. Therefore, we should prioritize preventing disease or minimizing the clinical signs of disease in the first instance to protect animal welfare and health: the old adage of ‘prevention is better than cure”.
Another important concept in vaccination is that of ‘herd immunity. Herd immunity is the protection offered to a wider community of animals, pets, or farm animals, when a sufficiently high proportion of individual animals are vaccinated, reducing the prevalence of disease and numbers of susceptible individuals in an area.
We want to give as much information as we can about pet vaccines. Feel free to read through all the topics we’ve discussed on this page.
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