Preventing and curing disease in animals means protecting both animals’ and people’s health. Prevention programmes, including vaccination, protect pets from a number of diseases, and in turn protect people too. One such example is rabies, which has been eradicated in a number of European countries through effective vaccination programmes. 

Preventative use of medicines has a direct positive effect on diseases in:

• Dogs: rabies, distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirosis
• Cats: panleucopenia, chlamydiosis, cat flu and feline leukaemia
• Rabbits: myxomatosis and haemorragic enteritis. 

However 
despite the success of preventative measures, animals still get sick and need to be treated.