Could Vaccination Cause Cat Scabs?

This topic of cats with scabs is still going and even though I wrote the first post on cat scabs in 2008 I still have lots of visitors to that post and many comments. It seems that this is a problem that no-one has a good answer too. Vets don't know any more than we do. Maybe it would be a good topic for a graduate student to do a thesis on.

I thought I had solved the problem when I learned cats could be allergic to beef but after two years without any scabs Alfie has developed another one. However I am not 100% sure that he has not eaten beef again so that could be the reason. So I will be a bit more careful about that.

These scabs do not seem to hurt or itch. They are scaly and slightly raised. I am beginning to wonder if these scabs could be caused by vaccinations because vaccinations are always given round the neck - just where the scabs come. Now I know for a fact that vets are aware that vaccination can cause a tumours at the site of injection. My vet said this was so and that they have stopped vaccinating in the same site each year for this reason. They now vary the injection site- but it is always around the neck.

This is just an idea- does this fit with scabs your cat has had?

The vet also told me they really don't need these annual vaccinations and they only do them because cattery or kennels will not take them without. This alarmed me so much that I haven't sent him to the cattery since then. We are getting a house sitter when we go overseas this year!