Our Animal Health Digest team believes that animal health professionals are the best advocates for proactive disease management protocols, including vaccinations. While we study potential side effects and challenge select original duration of immunity terms, animal health pros in unison can advocate for preventative care in all species, including our own. This article shares history and insights about the importance of vaccination.
Source: Hoard’s Dairyman, April 18, 2016.
Due to substandard vaccination rates, nations in North America, Europe, and Oceania are seeing outbreaks of measles. While some are religious objectors, others fear an autism-vaccination link (proven to be unfounded) or are concerned the vaccination schedules are too aggressive for children. The Economist magazine reports that a quarter of parents fall into this group in its March 26 article “A jab in time.”