Vaccines
Why are animals vaccinated?
Vaccines keep animals healthy, prevent disease and reduce the need for antibiotics. Vaccinating animals also prevents the spread of certain diseases from animals to humans. Farmers and consumers benefit from vaccines because having healthy animals results in having safer and better quality food products (e.g., meat, milk).
Animal vaccines help protect people.
Animals can carry diseases that people can get. For example, rabies can be passed along from a domestic or wild animal to a human being. Vaccines are one way to prevent such an animal-to-human transference of disease. Vaccines also reduce the need for antibiotics and the risk of developing antibiotic resistance.