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Justice Jones

Ms.Jizi

UWRT 1104

1 November 2017

Double Entry Journal

MLA Citation:

Horzinek, Marian C. Vaccine Use and Disease Prevalence in Dogs and Cats. VETMIC Veterinary
Microbiology, vol. 117, no. 1, 2006, pp. 28.

Source (Quote, Page Number, Paragraph Responses

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Quote (Paragraph 7): From the
immunologist's viewpoint, the veterinary
profession should weigh the perceived risks
of side effects due to overvaccination together
with vaccination failures against the true risks
of a decreased herd immunity with the re-
emergence of epidemics as a consequence.
Quote (Paragraph 13): An injection is
technically not as demanding as repairing a
fracture, and the client does not see much if
she does, it is the failures: the side effects and
vaccination breaks.
Quote (Paragraph 13): What is commonplace
in surgery and internal medicine is lacking
here: vaccination is probably the only
veterinary measure without a follow-up. It is
what I called the Shoot-and-Trust
Principle.
Quote (Paragraph 20): Whereas the one-
size-fits-all shot has been practiced as a
routine in the past, vaccination to measure
will have to come in its place in the future.
Quote (Paragraph 29): Most animals in an
area, a province, a country should be
vaccinatedrather than revaccinating the
same dog or cat time and again, which neither
Giving animals too many vaccines can be
harmful, but at the same time giving them too
little can cause a potential epidemic.
Vaccinations can go wrong, and will go
unnoticed. This is because the client will
believe that the vaccine worked without even
knowing about how it is actually making
things worse.
The vets do not even check to see if the
vaccines work! They just assume that they do
and let the client go on about their life.
In the past, the vaccines were very generic
and could be applied to all animals. Now,
however, they are catered more towards the
specific animals and their different lifestyles.
If the majority of animals are all vaccinated
against a specific disease, then it is possible to
create an immunity towards it. So,
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improves its own immune status nor vaccinating multiple animals once is better
contributes to herd immunity. Herd immunity than vaccinating a few animals multiple times
is defined as the indirect protection of
susceptible members of a population brought
about by the presence of immune
individuals.