All these, have made conditions worse. There are even situations were vaccines are cooled just before a scheduled delivery to a vet or an end user. Sometimes, the supplies may reach late because of the inefficient shipping services. In such cases, you can contact the supplier for the efficacy parameters. If you have loyalty towards the supplier or if you feel they are reputable enough, we recommend that you can follow what they say. They would not ordinarily try to gain unsatisfied customers by pushing their vaccines. Another aspect is that, if the freight paid is for ' Express delivery' by the company or yourself, you can claim for the delay or for the possible damage. Even if you accept the vaccines for use, you can still claim by writing to the head quarters of the shipping service for their inefficient handling of perishable goods and vaccines. In many cases, it works ! However, if there is no track record of the vaccine dealer, you may contact the vaccine manufacturer or marketer to find if there is any specific storage instructions. When writing to them, always remember to quote batch number, expiry date, manufacturing date and other billing details so that they can better assist you. Also, animal owners should recognize the fact that, in many cases, ' vaccination' may not be equated with ' immunization'. In other words, even if you have vaccinated your animal, you can't be definite that the animal is immunized. Both the terms are subjective or overlapping and depends on many other professional aspects. In many cases, both are assumed to be the one and the same. Meanwhile, many veterinarians believe that combination vaccines may not have desired immunization effect. This is totally unfounded as many underlying principles of formulation have changed. Further, poly-valent vaccines save administration costs; WHO and FDA is continuously endorsing and certifying such new vaccines. We may emphasize that, you should always buy vaccines from trusted source who is good at maintaining cold chains effectively. Also, it is rumoured that there are some unscrupulous agents who collect expired vaccines from the market, "recycle" them with fresh labels and infiltrate the market. Their winning strategy is that, as rabies vaccine is used for prophylaxis, luckily, the effectiveness is seldom challenged in the field ! There are also certain other issues in vaccination. Post bite vaccination is yet another controversial topic to deal with and we may leave that for a later issue. November 2006 |
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