Whats your favourite vaccine brand? - Page 2

Prager, this was also common place in this country at least in rural areas,before a lot of the dog diseases were around,or known and widespread as they are today.When I was a kid,parvo,heartworms ,corona virus,lepto and many others were not commonplace. Rabies,distemper and intestinal worms were the things you worried about. Excessive handling of a litter was discouraged,thought to cause the pups to become sick and die.Might have been very true,given the spread of some disease from dog to dog thru human contact.But its a different world today purebred dogs of today don't have those strong immune systems.The vaccine I stated above also is effective against the mutated strains of parvo,3 diffrent ones that  I am aware of.Parvo is the quickest most devastating disease to a litter of pups that I know of.

 To michael49

Schering-Plough DA2PPvL effective against CPV-2 CPV-2b CPV-2c.
 

 I am very inerested. Why are you saying that. What is your experience or is there some scientific reasson?
 Please let us know/
Prager(Hans)
 http://www.alpinek9.com
 

Hans,here is the link lot of good info on several diseases scroll down to parvo virus.Not a treatment,but a preventative vacccine.http://www.dcavm.org/08dec.html Google [tamiflu for use in dogs with parvo] I found this to be interesting also.Could potentially save a lot of money as opposed to conventionall treatment.     Michael

Parvo seem to be the biggest head that I have seen in most kennels. I guess Parvo has different strains and mutant forms develop over time. Each manufacturer seem to develop a vaccine to a certain mutant strain. Does this mean that we should use atleast 3/4 different types of parvo vaccine on the dog each year. We do not have access to titter testing.

Hans, I bred Rottweilers for a number of years back in the eightys,extremely susceptible to parvo.Lost more then a few to parvo,some entire litters as early as 3 weeks old,some older pups with 1 or 2 shots in them.Probably due to mutant or more resistant strains developing.Always on the look out for anything concerning this virus it seems to come out of nowhere and  travels like wildfire. Biggest concern for me in a kennel,and in case your wondering,my vaccines came from my vet so I'm confident that were never allowed to warm.I use the vaccine stated because of the study,although I feel confident there are others just as good.

crazydog, no I'm just stating that this vaccine should be effective against several different strains.

I use Neopar for parvo for several reasons:  it overcomes maternal antibodies, is effective against mutant strains of parvo and can be given to puppies as young as 3 weeks of age.  I believe the healthiest means of vaccination is to give a single vaccine against one disease at a time to avoid confusing the immune system. Since switching to Neopar vaccines I have not had one instance of vaccinosis or any other negative reaction.  Information on their site at:  www.neotechvaccines.com.

Neopar titer comparison:


CPV Vaccine Titer per Dose Comparison NEOPAR®
(NEOTECH, LLC) Average serial 3,162,278/dose
Vanguard
(Pfizer) serial 183615090, Exp: 10/10/00 100,000/dose
Progard
(Intervet) serial 4019001, Exp: 8/1/00 245,471/dose
Duramune KF-11
(Ft.Dodge) serial 1481474A, Exp: 4/1/01
794,328/dose
Duramune Max PV (2b)
(Ft.Dodge) serial 1211008, Exp: 5/22/00 15,849/dose