Responding to Brookef18 -- I agree with asganga66 about spacing out the vaccinations by 2-3 weeks. Everything that I have read indicates that when you combine too many vaccinations, it not only increases the risk of adverse reactions, but also increases the risk that the various components in the different products will interfere with the immune response and could result in neutralization or negation. (see quote from the American Animal Hospital Association below)
Also, I personally would never use a Fort Dodge product on my animals. Please read the warning letter from the FDA to Fort Dodge that I will post on a separate reply because it is too long for this one.
On Page 16 of the
2003 AAHA Guidelines under
Immunological Factors Determining Vaccine Safety, it states that:
"Although increasing the number of components in a vaccine may be more convenient for the practitioner or owner, the likeli-hood for adverse effects may increase. Also, interference can occur among the components. Care must be taken not to administer a product containing too many vaccines simultaneously if adverse events are to be avoided and opti-mal immune responses are sought. " Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and Don't Know, Dr. Ronald Schultz
http://www.cedarbayvet.com/duration_of_immunity.htm
The
2003 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine Guidelines are accessible online at
http://www.leerburg.com/special_report.htm .
The
2006 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine Guidelines are downloadable in PDF format at
http://www.aahanet.org/PublicDocumen...s06Revised.pdf .
Veterinarian, Dr. Robert Rogers,has an excellent presentation on veterinary vaccines at
http://www.newvaccinationprotocols.com/.