Lepto is a bacterin, not a virus, and you can't get permanent
immunity to a bacterin. However, the vaccine has been described as
'useless' and there have been many calls for it to be withdrawn from the
market. There are hundreds of strains of leptospirosis, but only two in the
vaccine, AND it provides immunity (if at all) for only between three and six
months. This means that your dog is probably unprotected against the two
strains for around nine months of the year, and against all the other
hundreds of strains for ever.
Dr Ron Schultz (the world’s foremost independent authority on canine vaccines) ... he neither recommends nor advocates - even in Lepto endemic areas. “I have seen older dogs go into kidney failure within two days of receiving a Lepto vaccine.”
If it were me I would believe an authority on vaccines........
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