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Originally Posted by kosoma  It was my understanding, after attending a seminar conducted by a veterinary researcher at...(OSU or OU, don't remember which) that no vaccine can prevent a disease 100%. It prevents MOST of the time (and also can reduce the severity of the disease if it doesn't prevent it) but sometimes for varied reasons it just doesn't.
So the fact that a dog gets parvo doesn't in itself mean that the shot wasn't given. Of course, I don't know anything about your case in particular, just mentioning this because it seems many people mistakenly believe that vaccines will always prevent disease. They don't, just as they don't in humans. |
Not only does the vaccination not prevent disease in 100% of cases.... but it can actually INITIATE in some cases, the very disease in the pup that we are trying to prevent.... so in essence, you can actually GIVE a pup parvo by giving him the vaccination to prevent it.... it's all a matter of how each pup's immune system handles the introduction of the virus into the body...