"Kris L. Christine" wrote in
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The American Veterinary Medical Association actually established a
Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force in 1996 "in response to
the increased incidence of soft tissue sarcomas occurring at
vaccination sites." This link will take you to the AVMA website
http://www.avma.org/vafstf/default.asp.

This link http://www.avma.org/vafstf/vafstf01.asp will take you to the
2001
Report of the Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force, which
states that: "Most killed-virus vaccines contain adjuvants to enhance
the immune response, and injection of some killed-virus vaccines has
been shown to result in inflammatory granulomas in cats.2 Some of these
inflammatory granulomas to progress to sarcomas.3"

Rabies vaccines are killed, adjuvanted vaccines.

In 1999 the World Health Organization classified veterinary vaccine
adjuvants as Class III/VI carcinogens-- that's their second highest
level of carcinogenesis.

There's likely a genetic predisposition in some cats that makes them
susceptible to the transformation from the vaccine-induced inflammatory
response to cancer.

If your cats need to be vaccinated against Rabies- go with the Purevax from
Merial. Its a feline recombinant rabies vaccine manufactured without
adjuvants or the whole rabies virus. I have never heard of a VAS caused by
the Purevax.

Phil