So there you have it, there is an argument to be made for not vaccinating, although not everyone will be willing or even ready to hear it, and many will even disagree violently with it, Â vaccinating
your puppy against parvo or distemper or other viruses, no matter how wisely and moderately and scientifically you do so, does NOT produce immunity against viruses and dis - eases but instead, doing so actually sets up the body for dis - ease.
Not exact matches
The five - way
puppy shots protect
against Distemper, Hepatitis, Kennel Cough, Parainfluenza and
Parvo.
In a study performed by Vanguard, it was found that a combination vaccine (which typically contains parvovirus, distemper and one to five other antigens), given to six week old
puppies had only a 52 % chance of protecting them
against parvo.
When
puppies are too young to be vaccinated
against the
parvo virus and they have not been protected by maternal antibodies as a result of vaccination of a breeding female, they lack the defenses to fight
against this aggressive virus.
Your
puppy needs to be vaccinated with a series of vaccines between the ages of 8 and about 20 weeks to protect him
against the potentially deadly
Parvo and Distemper viruses.
Puppies can be vaccinated
against a variety of diseases, including
parvo virus, distemper, hepatitis, kennel cough and leptospirosis (lepto).
Every
puppy treated
against the
parvo takes certain volume of meds prescribed based on the weight, size and age.
Also, some
puppies may need additional vaccinations
against parvo.
For instance, if the mother was not vaccinated
against or never was infected with
parvo, it means that the
puppy is likely to have no natural immunity
against the disease unless it is vaccinated properly on time.
The vet often recommends the first vaccine
against parvo for your
puppy very early in age, around 6 to 8 weeks old.
Even still, this does not mean you should put off getting a
puppy vaccinated
against parvo — two types of protection less - than - full strength is better than only one or none at all.
Parvo presents a unique difficulty with regards to getting
puppies protected
against it: like all mammals,
puppies receive protective antibodies from their mothers in the colostrum, or first milk, that they receive in the first 48 hours of life.
The core vaccine for
puppies is called DHPP, a combination vaccine that protects
against four common infectious diseases (distemper, hepatitis,
parvo and parainfluenza virus).
Most vaccinations are USELESS
against the 2c Strain of
Parvo and this is why there is such an increase of
Parvo cases amongst fully - vaccinated adult dogs as well as
puppies.
What's different about this variant is not that the vaccine isn't effective
against it, and not that adult dogs can get it, too (they can get older strains of
parvo, too, but incidence is much lower than in
puppies because adult dogs are easier to vaccinate effectively), but that that virus has characteristics that make it harder to diagnose with the currently standard tests.
The
parvo vaccine is most commonly administered in a combination vaccine (termed DHPP), which inoculates your
puppy against distemper, hepatitis (adenovirus), parvovirus, and parainfluenza.