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Letters to the Editor
Editor — As the authors of ‘Equine influenza: a current reference for vets in practice in the UK’, published in the September/October 2019 issue of UK-Vet Equine, we are grateful to Dr Lees for raising concerns that The Boehringer Ingelheim technical team had with inconsistencies between the advice given in the article and the Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPC) for their vaccines ProteqFlu and ProteqFluTe. We are also grateful to Professor Durham for the benefit of his experiences and for his provision of data from the VMD
It is not uncommon for current best evidence or expert opinion to conflict with the recommendations made in SPCs as the latter are updated infrequently and are often superseded by published evidence (Hardefeldt, 2019). It is however important that vets are aware when they are using medicines ‘off label’, and the authors therefore welcome the points of clarification relating to the SPCs for ProteqFlu that Ms Lees has raised.
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