Dear everyone,
As you may know we are preparing export/import documents. My Japanese yorkie is 4 months old and we would like to export her from Japan (her video is under video page in this forum.). Things are going well, except 6-combination vaccines. It is not necessary to have these vaccinations, however we wanted to include the history of vaccinations on the federal document. So that my dog can stay at hotels that require vaccine certificates.
Until now she received three times injections of 6-combination vaccine, called Canine-6 made by Kyoto Biken Laboratories, Inc. (Japan).
On the 1st of August, just after her 3rd injection, Japanese federal Agricultural Administrative office banded the company Kyotobiken and announced that most of their products are no longer accepted.
http://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/ov_cert_info.pdf
(Information is available only in Japanese)
The efficacy of most of the current products are invalid. The 6-combination vaccine that my dog received is also in the list, then we had to erase the history of her vaccinations. Then agricultural administration office told us to give another injection of 6-combination vaccine from different company, if we need to put a history of her vaccination on the federal document.
The vaccine is against canine distemper virus, canine adenovirus type 2, parainfluenza virus and canine parvovirus infections.
I worry her health. Although the product is told to be invalid, there might be a partial effects. Also giving multiple injections of vaccines in such a short period might cause adverse effects. Vaccination itself might cause side effects such as shock.
First we decided to measure antibody levels against the 6 pathogens.
Could you please let us hear your opinions?
Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
Pepu