Recently, a city-run animal shelter had to put down its entire cat population but one. The untimely death of these well-cared for kitties had sure made me question the effectiveness of the yearly vaccination shots to dogs and cats.
It was reported in the local papers that cats in the shelter were infected with a deadly strain of cat flu viruses. Even though all of them had their annual boosters including the vaccine for calicivirus, one died of the infectious disease. The shelter had to put down the other 25 to contain the cat flu epidemic.
In this case, it looks like the annual calicivirus vaccine had failed to help this group of infected cats. - Ayee
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