As a qualified veterinary nurse with seven years in practice I would be very interested to know the source of the supposed facts in Peter Shaw’s letter regarding pet vaccination (Have Your Say, June 13), as it obviously isn’t based on what actually being seen in veterinary clinics.

I have never seen any of the conditions he listed having occurred as the result of a vaccination, yet he states that this is a common problem.

Surely, if this were the case, I should have seen numerous animals suffering as a result of vaccination by now, as I work in a practice with an exceptionally high level of vaccinated patients.

However, there is plenty of evidence that vaccination is saving the lives of pets.

The infectious diseases that we now routinely vaccinate against used to kill thousands of animals, but are now much more rarely seen in this country.

This isn’t because they have miraculously disappeared, but because vaccination has prevented their spread, and more often than not, when we do actually see these diseases it is unvaccinated animals that are affected. I, without doubt, will certainly continue to vaccinate my own animals.

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