One suggestion on prevention: Give your cat only the vaccines that it really needs. Here’s why.

By Tom Ewing

Due to the demonstrable effectiveness of vaccines in preventing a wide variety of infectious feline diseases, veterinarians used to recommend that every cat be injected every year with every available vaccine.

Vaccine-associated sarcomas may develop at the point on a cat’s body where a vaccine has been injected. Experts still don’t know why.

In the past 15 years or so, however, this approach to preventive therapy has come into question for several reasons. Although the vaccine safety and efficacy record overall is very good, it has now become clear that vaccination can sometimes lead to clinical disease. It is remotely possible for vaccines to damage developing fetuses in pregnant cats or to stimulate allergic reactions, and for improperly placed injections to cause severe nerve injury. And although uncommon, vaccines and the equipment used…

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