Our question this week was:Dr. Jon, I am a Licensed Practical Nurse. I would like to give my animals their vaccines myself. In Virginia, I can buy the vaccines online. Is their any reason you think I shouldn't as long as I know how much to give and what route and where and know the side effects?Pat BrownAnswerHi – thanks for your email Pat. You ask a very good question. There are several reasons that veterinarians don't recommend that owners give their own shots to their petsStain and Odor RemoverNature's Miracle Stain and Odor Remover is Guaranteed to remove pet accident stains and odors that other products fail to remove including old uri.... It is interesting that you ask this question because we have a veterinarian columnist that prefers to go by "the Irreverent Veterinarian" that gives real opinions about these types of issues. They recently emailed me asking to write about this exact topic. I believe that they saw a pet that was home-vaccinated and came down with parvo. In general, I can say that owners that give their own vaccines at home are not regarded highly.
Recently, vaccination has become a very controversial subject. With the advent of immune diseases thought to be associated with vaccination, the route of vaccine has become a hot topic.
Vaccinations are the introduction of vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a viral disease. The term comes from the Latin vacca, or cow, from the first inoculations of cowpox to produce immunity...
Vaccinations are the introduction of vaccines into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease. Through scientific advancement many vaccines have been developed, and death due to infection has significantly...
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