Sentences with phrase «less immunity to the diseases»

So dogs and cats whose immune systems are compromised by things like cancer, autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart and lung disease or kidney disease might have less immunity to the diseases they were vaccinated against in their youth.

Not exact matches

Public health efforts to prevent epidemics of infectious diseases typically rely on herd immunity: The more people in a community are vaccinated or otherwise protected from a disease, the less likely it is to be transmitted throughout the population.

These cats have inherited a mix of genes from their mixed parentage, and some vets even find that street cats are more robust in their immunity and are less susceptible to genetic diseases.

Addition of an unnecessary antigen to the vaccination protocol will result in a lesser immunity to the important diseases like parvovirus and distemper, and increase the risk of adverse reactions.

While an indoor cat is much less likely to contract an infectious disease or experience traumatic injury, an indoor environment does not create immunity from other illnesses, like heart or kidney disease, or even parasites.

Vaccination: While vaccination can prevent the disease and make the clinical signs much less severe in many cases, it may take several weeks to induce immunity.

Older dogs are less likely affected by distemper than puppies since exposure to the virus leads to immunity to the disease and to the fact that older dogs usually have been already vaccinated for the disease.

In fact, LESS problems since the mixed breed dogs as a whole seem to have a hybrid immunity and are not prone to as many breed specific diseases and mutations.