Vaccination has a number of advantages over current treatment methods
for pinkeye:
• Vaccination reduces the incidence and severity of the disease,
reducing individual animal suffering and production
losses
• Pinkeye is often well advanced before animals are treated and
as such animals often don’t respond well to treatment
• Vaccination reduces the need for antibiotics and therefore reduces
the risk of bacterial resistance or residues
• Vaccination can be administered at convenient times (e.g drenching,
calf marking) when animals are being mustered
• Vaccination reduces the need for yarding cattle in hot, dusty
conditions to treat affected animals, thus reducing
risk of further spread of pinkeye