Vaccination

Vaccination against various diseases must be one of the most common equine veterinary procedures, certainly in the developed world.

However, the frequency and, in most cases, ease with which vaccination is practiced can lead to complacency with regard to its importance and certainly doesn’t do justice to the complexity of the science behind it - something which has been baffling and bewildering veterinary students for centuries!

So, how did it all start? In this month's EDV article Dr Euan Laidlaw tells us.