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Controversy and confusion: Frequency of revaccination of adult dogs and cats An update Richard A. Squires Outline Potted history / Public perceptions / Safety Duration of Immunity / Core vs. Non-core Recommendations /Commentary Overview Companion animal vaccines have served society well for many years and continue to play a crucial role in preventing disease and suffering As large a proportion as possible of all puppies and kittens should be properly protected by vaccination Veterinarians are debating the details of how best to use vaccines, not whether or not to use them [Nosodes] Finland, 1994-5 5000 dogs became severely ill, 1500 died Potted history Our current vaccination practices are not, by and large, based on science It is costly to determine ultimate duration of immunity Regulatory authorities have not generally required manufacturers to do more than short-term challenge studies [rabies exception] 1

Potted history Until recently, the commercial pressures have been to show earlier onset and higher degree of protection rather than longer duration of protection Some veterinary immunologists have questioned our practices all along, but were largely ignored for decades. Then Kindly provided by Mr. David Sutton Kindly provided by Mr. David Sutton Consumer magazine March 2002 2009 The Pet Jab Problem 2

17 August 2010 Small animal vets are getting a reputation as the used car salesmen of the veterinary profession Senior veterinary practitioner (farm animal) 2001 http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/household/backyard/pets/petvaccination/page/introduction.aspx VETS AND VACCINES What vets don t tell you about vaccines I believe it possible that veterinarians have also been misled [by vaccine manufacturers] Catherine O Driscoll New Zealand Gundog Magazine December 1999 Declining authority of professions Sophisticated clients Are we over-vaccinating? And why are we being asked this question? DoI data Are we over-vaccinating? vacc at World Wide Web Increasing interest in alternative remedies Autoimmune diseases in dogs Free Medline Long-ignored views of some immunologists 3

Declining authority of professions Vaccine-associated sarcomas in cats Sophisticated clients DoI data Are we over-vaccinating? vaccinating? World Wide Web Increasing interest in alternative remedies Autoimmune diseases in dogs Free Medline Long-ignored views of some immunologists In Australia? In Australia? What a man would like to be true, he preferentially believes Francis Bacon, 1620 cited by John Ellis in a letter critiquing Fred Scott's feline DOI paper. AJVR Sept '99 Burton G. and Mason K.V. (1997) Do postvaccinal sarcomas occur in Australian cats? Australian Veterinary Journal 75: 102-106. 106 Yes they do. At least 1 per 178,600 vaccinations Justifications for keeping on keeping on? It is relatively harmless... It gets them in the door every year so I can help them in so many other ways... My practice will fold if I stop doing it, then I won t be able to help anyone... I see cases of parvo every year but I haven t seen any vaccine-associated problems in 20 / 30 / 40 years 4

A practitioner might revaccinate fewer than 1000 animals of a particular species in a year. If the risk of a fatal vaccine-associated disease is 1 to 3 per 10,000 vaccinated animals or less, that practitioner might go many years before seeing a single instance of that fatal disease. Then she/he might not recognise it for what it is, because of its rarity. So does that make a risk of fatal disease in 1 to 3 per 10,000 of your vaccine recipients acceptable to you? It is all about risk vs. benefit, isn t it? Safety issues Safety data Epidemiologic evidence for a causal relation between vaccination and fibrosarcoma tumorigenesis in cats Kass PH, Barnes WG, Spangler WL, et al. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 203: 396-405. (1993) Kass et al. 1993 345 fibrosarcoma-bearing cats enrolled; 185 with tumours at sites used for vaccination, 160 at other sites. FeLV vaccine recipients were 2.78-5.49 times more likely to get an injection site sarcoma versus a sarcoma elsewhere Rabies vaccine recipients were 1.2-1.99 times more likely to get an injection site sarcoma versus a sarcoma elsewhere The more vaccines injected simultaneously, the greater the risk It s the adjuvant 5

Safety data Hydranencephaly and cerebellar hypoplasia in two kittens attributed to intrauterine parvovirus infection i Sharp NJ, Davis BJ, Guy JS, et al. Journal of Comparative Pathology 121: 39-53 (1999) an in-utero parvovirus infection, possibly due to vaccination [italics mine] Safety data Outbreak of fatal salmonellosis in cats following use of a hightiter modified-live panleukopenia virus vaccine Foley JE, Orgad U, Hirsh DC, et al. (1999) Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 214: 67-70. Safety data Abortion and death in pregnant bitches associated with a canine vaccine contaminated with bluetongue e virus Levings RL, Wilbur LA, Evermann JF et al. (1996) Developments in Biological Standardization 88: 219-20. Safety data Vaccine-associated immunemediated hemolytic anaemia in the dog Duval D, Giger U. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 10: 290-295. (1996) Duval & Giger, 1996 Plus, the nutters Rigorous case definition (58 cases) Showed a temporal, not a causal relationship Is there a biological precedent for causality? Parallels findings in vaccinated children and experimental mice antibodies have been eluted off red blood cells of children with IMHA after diphtheriapertussis-tetanus vaccination. These antibodies reacted with the vaccine antigen(s) 6

NEW MILLENIUM + NEW ATTITUDES = REAL HEALTH...nowadays animals are suffering from and passing on to their offspring the inexcusable effects of overvaccination. Sarndra G. Unwin N.Z. Kennel Gazette November 1999 Supplement On the other side of the coin Results demonstrated that recent vaccination (<3 months) does not increase signs of ill-health by more than 0.5% and may actually decrease it by as much as 5%. Annual revaccination Is it safe? Is it efficacious? Duration of Immunity (DoI) Is it justifiable? i.e., does the necessity for frequent boosters stand up to scientific scrutiny? But first, core versus non-core Core and non-core vaccines Core vaccines for dogs protect against CDV CPV-2 CAV 7

Core vaccines for cats protect against FPV FCV FHV-1 Non-core vaccines for dogs CPiV B. bronchiseptica Leptospira spp. CCoV* * Not recommended for routine use by most large organisations Non-core vaccines for cats Chlamydophila felis FeLV B. bronchiseptica FIV* FIP* Giardia* * Not recommended for routine use by most large organisations CDV: Auby et al. (1974) Five 3 month-old puppies, vaccinated twice, kept isolated and challenged intracranially 30 months after the 2 nd vacc. Two seronegative controls. All 5 vaccinates were protected Both control puppies died Protective SN Ab titres persisted throughout the study in the vaccinates FPV, FHV, FCV Scott FW, Geissinger CM. (1997) Duration of immunity in cats vaccinated with an inactivated feline panleukopenia, herpesvirus and calicivirus vaccine. Feline Practice 25: 12-19. Scott FW, Geissinger CM. (1999) Longterm immunity in cats vaccinated with an inactivated trivalent vaccine. American Journal of Veterinary Research 60: 652-658. p. 55-60 8

Pfizer. Four years p. 61-66 Pfizer. Four years http://www.aahanet.org/publicdocuments/vaccineguidelines06revised.pdf Triennial for the core vaccines Triennial for the core vaccines 9

2007 2010 Triennial or longer for the core vaccines 16 weeks for the last puppy / kitten shot 2009 Straightforward recommendations Vets should discuss risks and benefits with owners and obtain informed consent. Always record vaccine brand and batch number in the medical record + the anatomical location where it was injected (cats). Use non-core vaccines only when they are indicated by a thoughtful, informed risk assessment (e.g., kennel cough, Leptospira, FIV, FeLV) Uncontroversial recommendations For cats, educate owners about the seriousness of persistent post-vaccinal lumps Avoid idinjecting adjuvanted d vaccines between the scapulae of cats. Consider other sites (limbs as distal as feasible, even the tail) or avoid adjuvant altogether Finally... Vets have the power to influence:- Accreditation requirements for kennels and catteries The demands re vaccination made by kennels and catteries of their customers Clients expectations The likelihood of clients returning to the practice regularly for health checks 10

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