My husband works for FDA and no vaccines are not tested to the extent that other drugs are. It takes years for most drugs to get to market and even then there are many that have to be pulled due to one unforeseen circumstance or another. Flu strains change year by year and to be honest, they are just winging it.
Quite frankly, there are some studies who show that the vaccine is nothing more than a high stakes placebo. Such as this one:
“As reported in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Perinatology, rates of illness among women vaccinated during pregnancy and among their infants were virtually the same as illness rates among women who had not been vaccinated during pregnancy and among their infants (1). “
http://www.generationrescue.org/binstock/090927-vacc-unvacc-pregnant-women-infants.htm
Vaccines on pets are even worse as far as FDA testing goes. When your vet tells you he has a brand new drug, insist on the old one. Because your pet IS the test group.
I will never take any drug or vaccine that has been on the market for less than five years with good clinical success and tolerable side effects. Taking it sooner just makes you the extended test group.
Thank you for your post and the tips, I agree.
And I love the little pooches too.