The word necessary means ‘essential’. So are cat vaccinations really essential? You cannot say that cat vaccinations are essential. This is because they are not without risk but if you asked 100 cat owners if they believed that vaccinations are … Continue reading →
In the UK cat owners are going off the idea of vaccinating their cat. Is the same trend occurring in the US? The Internet has had an effect on the opinion of cat owners about vaccinations. Back in the old … Continue reading →
There is a slightly bizarre, almost April Fool story on the Mirror.co.uk website only it is not April 1st.. The headline is, “Anti-vaxxers are refusing to vaccinate pets over fears they will become autistic” It is clearly a hyped up … Continue reading →
There’s an intriguing article on an African website (Ghana News Agency.org) which discusses an attempt, in a large region of Ghana called Brong-Ahafo, to increase the number of domestic cat vaccinations. The project has failed. The target was 10% of … Continue reading →
The rabies vaccine is obligatory in most US states as I understand it and this vaccine can be bracketed into two types, namely a non-adjuvanted vaccine and a vaccine which contains an adjuvant. The difference can be quite important to … Continue reading →
After a no-deal Brexit, if a UK citizen wants to take their pet to continental Europe i.e. within the European Union they will need a rabies vaccination and a health certificate which would cost around £60 (US$79). This seems to … Continue reading →
In a sentence, cat vaccinations stimulate the making of antibodies specific to a certain germ and these antibodies are part of the immune system which destroys the germ. Some terms used I think we need to look at some the … Continue reading →
Is there a connection between feline vaccine overdose and pancreatitis? I’m told by veterinary experts that more than 90% of all pancreatitis cases in the cat have no identifiable cause. In other words, veterinarians do not know what causes feline … Continue reading →
Feb 22nd 2017, Dr John Michael Robb DVM, at what appears to be a local government meeting, is presenting with passion and genuine concern the arguments against the current obligatory rabies vaccination protocols in the USA. He is saying, in … Continue reading →
Titers are blood tests. They check a cat’s (or human’s) immune status to vaccinations or disease which a cat may have received or suffered in the past. If a titer result is positive the cat or human has sufficient immunity … Continue reading →
