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Changes to Ontario Rabies Rules
There’s nothing too earth-shattering here, but a few useful changes pertaining to rabies regulations are coming to Ontario as of July 1, 2023. Medical officers of health (MOHs) will have the ability to...
View ArticleAt What Age Should We Vaccinate Puppies and Kittens Against Rabies?
(TL:DR… check out the TikTok version at the bottom) When I was a newly graduated veterinarian in general practice, I gave puppies and kittens their first rabies vaccine at 16 weeks of age. That was...
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Vaccine Hesitancy in Pets: A Look At Adverse Event Rates
Vaccine hesitancy by pet owners has been in the news a lot recently, largely due to a recent study about the prevalence and consequences of vaccine hesitancy among dog owners in the US (Motta et al....
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Parvovirus in vaccinated dogs? Northern Ontario
We’re getting reports of potential canine parvovirus infection in vaccinated dogs in some parts of northern Ontario. Parvo is a nasty but vaccine-preventable disease, and available vaccines are very...
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More on Canine Vaccine Adverse Events
A large and eagerly-awaited follow up study on adverse post-vaccination events in dogs was recently published recently, and it provides a lot of solid – but unsurprising – data. The study (Moore et...
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Respiratory Disease in Dogs Sweeping Across the US: Outbreak of Disease or...
I’ve held off writing about this but since I’ve been answering many emails about it every day, here we go. The questions I keep getting (as usual) are “What’s going on with this reported outbreak of...
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What Were They Thinking? Purchased Skunk With Rabies
In case anyone would like a break from all the canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRDC) posts, take a moment to gawk in disbelief (as I did initially) at this human-created debacle: Skunk...
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Update: Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease (January 10)
This may be my last update on this topic in the short term (unless things change, of course). The good news: Cases of canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC) around most of the US and...
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Modified Live Kennel Cough (Bordetella) Vaccines in Dogs: What is the Human...
As awareness of canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC, formerly known as “kennel cough”) has spiked recently, there are more discussions happening about respiratory vaccines in dogs. A...
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“Lifestyle Vaccines” in Dogs: Expanding Our Thoughts
When we talk about vaccines of dogs*, we tend to split them into “core” and “non-core” vaccines. (*The same applies to cats. I use dogs by default for posts like this, which sometimes gets me an...
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