Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!crsp!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!larryk From: larryk@tektronix.UUCP (Larry Kohn) Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: Re: cat leukemia vaccine Message-ID: <5006@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 16:41:36 EST Article-I.D.: tektroni.5006 Posted: Fri Feb 1 16:41:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 14:23:23 EST References: <621@asgb.UUCP> <1062@opus.UUCP> Reply-To: larryk@tektronix.UUCP (Larry Kohn) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 14 Summary: In article <1062@opus.UUCP> rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) writes: >It may be of some interest that cat breeders are taking a "wait and see" >attitude on the new FeLeuk vaccine. > > - the vaccine is expensive, and the expense is a big deal if it's > not possible to buy it from standard vaccine suppliers as is > possible with other vaccines--especially if you've got a dozen > cats or so As an example of "expensive" my cat's vet (Aloha, OR) says, "Three in- jections are required initially. The first two ($23.50 and $12.50) are given three weeks apart and the third ($12.50), three months later. Your cat should then be given a yearly booster (price unknown), as with the FVRCP vaccine."