KILLEEN, TX 3 Year Rabies ALERT

[Kris L. Christine]

TEXAS: Killeen City Council will hold a workshop July 5 to discuss adopting a 3 year rabies ordinance for the city. They will vote July 12.

What You Can Do to Help:

Contact the City Council members to vote in favor:


Scott Cosper scosper@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 526-2167
Larry Cole lcole@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 289-7012
Billy Workman bworkman@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 338-8337
Kenny Wells kwells@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 681-4977 Juan Rivera jrivera@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 338-4304
Terry Clark tclark@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 466-9082

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[Kris L. Christine]

Killeen, Texas unanimously passes 3 year rabies protocol. Killeen Approves Animal Ordinance http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=58214Killeen Daily Herald 7/12/11

"The vaccination portion of the new amendment is aimed at decreasing instances of over-vaccination. "

[def kitty]

Not sure if this is good or bad news... One-year vaccines are actually safer than the 3-year vaccines. Unless this means that one-year vaccines can now be given every 3 years, which I doubt.

[Kris L. Christine]

Originally Posted by def kitty

Not sure if this is good or bad news... One-year vaccines are actually safer than the 3-year vaccines. Unless this means that one-year vaccines can now be given every 3 years, which I doubt.

The only one-year rabies vaccine that is considered to be safer than a 3 year is the non-adjuvanted rabies vaccine for felines. Unfortunately, there is no such thing available for dogs & yes, this is very good news for them and any pet owner who would like the choice of giving their pet a 3 or 1 year rabies vaccine.