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VHD help?

chul

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Does the VHD jab have to be done exactly 2 weeks after Myxi or is it ok to be more?
 
They aren't licensed to be given together officially, hence the 2 week gap. However, my exotic specialist gives them together after trialing it. Mine have been vaccinated for both at the same time for 2-3 years now with no problems. :)
 
Ah okay. He had his myxi a while back and is booked in for VHD tonight.
 
More is ok. My VHD jabs fall several weeks after myxi jabs for some of my buns as we moved them so I could schedule the VHD jabs for multiple buns together so as not to waste any vaccine as Lapinject only comes in 5 doses at a time.
 
I tend to leave mine 4 weeks apart anyway to give their systems a better chance to cope with the vaccs.

Its just important to leave a minimum 2 weeks between vaccs
 
They aren't licensed to be given together officially, hence the 2 week gap. However, my exotic specialist gives them together after trialing it. Mine have been vaccinated for both at the same time for 2-3 years now with no problems. :)

I would imagine this lays your vet open to being sued when something goes wrong as the vaccine companies would not advocate this.

Personally I wouldn't dream of giving the vaccinations closer together than the manufacturers recommendations, even if my vet said it was okay - the whole point of the gap in between is to allow for the immune system to recover from being given a dose of the infection before having to be put under strain again from another vaccine. Not worth the risk IMO.
 
Personally I wouldn't dream of giving the vaccinations closer together than the manufacturers recommendations, even if my vet said it was okay

I agree - I guess it depends what 'trialling' it means. Has a cohort of buns been blood tested for immunity after having been given both at the same time? Or even had one or both diseases deliberately introduced to prove that they have developed immunity? In the absence of this type of data (and there may be some, I don't know), just because a load of buns have been vaccinated together and haven't seemingly developed a problem, it doesn't mean that they are ok and immunity has developed properly. I'll bet that loads of rabbits die without apparent cause and without being post-mortem'd in a year between VHD vaccinations...could there be any VHD among this group?

Personally I'd want a lot more scientific reassurance that it's ok before going down that route. For the sake of one additional vet visit annually I don't think it's worth risking.
 
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