David Ramey, DVM, wishes discussions about equine vaccines were easy. Instead of being a simple linear vaccine equation, it has a lot of +/- variables in it. This makes discussions about vaccines fraught with all sorts of nuance and complications, he says. The result is that many throw up their hands rather than talk about them.
Not simple, the horse vaccine equation looks more like this:
Horse + vaccine (+/- effectiveness) + (reactions +/-) = no disease (+/)” – David Ramey, DVM
Ramey summarizes key points from the newly posted AAEP Guidelines for Serology in Horses with Adverse Events from Vaccination < link >.
Source: Horse Network, December 18, 2020. Link.