Guest guest Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 I am sure that many list members have dogs or cats and have been brainwashed to believe that their pets need totally unnecessary annual "booster" shots, which don't "boost" anything but destroy the immune system. As early as in the mid nineties, French researchers proved that the rabies vacc provides immunity for more than five years, but the FDA refused to recognize these findings (does that surprise us?!) Vets will also tell you that dogs cannot get fibrosarcoma from the rabies shot or vaccinations per se and that only cats are affected and therefore recommend to use the leg instead of the neck as vaccination site, because it's easier to amputate a leg! (I am not kidding you!). Again a study has shown that dogs are also susceptible to developing fibrosarcomas and my beautiful German Shepherd girl Shonee succumbed to it in November 2004. She was 12 years old, never sick in her whole life because she was unvaccinated until her mom (that's me) fell prey to the annual brainwashing exercise, because we had yet another rabies outbreak in our province and I wanted to "protect" my girl. She developed a massive growth, spreading from the vaccination site to her shoulder and breast bone. Never again will I subject any of my animals to any vaccinations. I cannot emphasize clearly and loudly enough the importance of an uncompromised immune system and have living proof to substantiate it in the form of my 21 year old cat Heidi! She was born in 1987 and a few months later her mom died from feline leukemia. My vet at the time wanted to euthanize the kittens because in his opinion they would die in any case in a couple of months or alternatively vaccinate them against feline leukemia. I refused both options and instead did my utmost to keep their immune system intact. However, since they were most probably feline leukemia carriers, I kept them indoors since it would have been irresponsible to let them roam outside and infect other cats. Heidi's three sisters died a couple of months ago - one by one - from old age, whereas the old girl seems to be getting younger as the months go by. Please read and forward Kris' excellent letter. Ingrid Blank Greetings! Below is a copy of the letter I faxed to Kay Johnson. It appears that a vaccine revolution in Kansas has been triggered by the Wichita Eagle article http://www.kansas.com/news/story/344780.html . There is a rare opportunity to get the various Kansas rabies laws changed to the national standard, and NOW is the time to take action to help! Dog owners in Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Georgia have contacted me about initiating efforts to change the laws in their states, based on the recent developments in Maine and Kansas. It's important to remember that as dog owners, we all have a stake in the rabies immunization laws across the country as they tend to spill over state borders; so even if you do not live in Kansas, the rabies immunization laws there could impact you in the future. What You Can Do to Help: Please contact Kay Johnson, the Wichita City Council, Kansas Legislators, the Governor, and the Attorney General. Contact information is below--it's simple to make a phone call or two or copy and paste e-mail addresses to send e-mail messages. The full e-mail list of Kansas senators and representatives is at the bottom of this message. Pass this message along to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. Simple actions multiplied hundreds of times over move mountains! A Wichita official has informed me that Kay Johnson told them she doesn't want dog owners contacting her!!! Kay Johnson is a public official, and she needs to be reminded that her salary is paid by the public she is supposed to serve -- as her department's mission states: http://www.wichita.gov/CityOffices/Environmental/ "Service: We must serve the public as a whole, our customers who seek a product or service from us, and future generations, whose interests are affected by today's actions." Kay Johnson at KJohnson Phone (316) 268-8351 Fax: (316) 268-8356 Environmental Services1900 E. 9th St. N. Wichita, KS 67214. Kansas Legislators can be contacted by clicking on the link below or by copying and pasting the e-mails at the bottom of this post. Kansas Legislature -- find your legislator http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/redistricting.do Full e-mail list of all Kansas Legislators is at the bottom of this message. Wichita City Council http://www.wichita.gov/Government/CityCouncil/ City Hall, 1st Floor, MS 1-13, 455 N. Main, Wichita, KS 67202 Phone (316) 268-4331 Fax: (316) 858-7743 E-Mails: CBrewer; LKWilliams; SSchlapp; JSkelton; PGray; JLongwell; SFearey; LPorter; ASherfield; JCJohnson; PHouston; KGlassman; MBuckmaster; TDozal Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius: Office of the Governor, Capitol, 300 SW 10th Ave., Ste. 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590 Phone: (1-877-579-6757) Fax 785-368-8788; Lt. Governor Mark Parkinson: Toll-Free 1-800-748-4408 Local 785-296-2213 Fax 785-296-5669; Kansas Attorney General's Office: Kansas Attorney General Stephen N. Six Memorial Hall, 2nd Floor; 120 SW 10th Street; Topeka, KS 66612 Phone: (785) 296-2215; 1-888-428-8436 fax: (785) 296-6296 e-mail: general; cprotect; victim; Consumer Protection Division Phone: (785) 296-3751 (800) 432-2310 Consumer Fax: (785) 291-3699 Regards, Kris PERMISSION GRANTED TO CROSS-POST THIS MESSAGE March 19, 2008 Ms. Kay Johnson, Director Environmental Services 1900 East 9th Street N. Wichita, KS 67214 RE: Wichita's Annual Rabies Immunization Protocol for Dogs Greetings Ms. Johnson: It is unconscionable, unprofessional, and reckless for you, as the Director of Environmental Services, to rigidly adhere to a medically unsound annual rabies immunization protocol based on your desire to address a non-compliance issue among irresponsible dog owners. In effect, your policy punishes law-abiding citizens by requiring them to pay for medically unnecessary annual boosters. The rabies vaccine is the most potent of the veterinary vaccines and associated with significant adverse reactions -- it should not be given more often than is necessary to maintain immunity. Adverse reactions such as autoimmune diseases affecting the thyroid, joints, blood, eyes, skin, kidney, liver, bowel and central nervous system; anaphylactic shock; aggression; seizures; epilepsy; and fibrosarcomas at injection sites are linked to rabies vaccinations. The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians' Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control, 2007 (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5603.pdf ) states that: "No laboratory or epidemiologic data exist to support the annual or biennial administration of 3- or 4-year vaccines following the initial series." Many, if not most or all, annual rabies vaccines are the 3 year vaccine relabeled for annual use -- Colorado State University's Small Animal Vaccination Protocol for its veterinary teaching hospital states: "Even with rabies vaccines, the label may be misleading in that a three year duration of immunity product may also be labeled and sold as a one year duration of immunity product." It is my personal opinion that you have set a rabies immunization policy which violates consumer protection laws by requiring pet owners (pet owners are consumers of veterinary services) to pay for annual rabies boosters which their dogs derive no benefit from, and which have the potential to cause harm. Under Article 8 "Unprofessional Conduct" of the Kansas Administrative Regulations, K.A.R. 70-8-1, one of the acts of unprofessional conduct listed by the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners (2A) is administering drugs "when the drugs are not necessary or required for the medical care of animals.." It appears that your annual rabies vaccination policy forces veterinarians into the uncomfortable position of violating their professional code of conduct by obliging them to overvaccinate dogs against rabies in order for their owners to comply with the law. The first entry under Appendix 2 of the 2003 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine Guidelines "Important Vaccination 'Do's and Don'ts" is "Do Not Vaccinate Needlessly - Don't revaccinate more often than is needed...." They also caution: "Do Not Assume that Vaccines Cannot Harm a Patient - Vaccines are potent medically active agents and have the very real potential of producing adverse events." The American Veterinary Medical Association's 2001 Principles of Vaccination states that "Unnecessary stimulation of the immune system does not result in enhanced disease resistance, and may increase the risk of adverse post-vaccination events." They elaborate by reporting that: "Possible adverse events include failure to immunize, anaphylaxis, immunosuppression, autoimmune disorders, transient infections, and/or long-term infected carrier states." In the Mission Statement for the department of which you are the Director (http://www.wichita.gov/CityOffices/Environmental/), it lists as one of the core values, principles and operating philosophy by which you are supposed to be guided: "Integrity: We are committed to truth, accuracy, and fairness." Your annual rabies immunization protocol fails to meet this standard of integrity. I strongly urge you to immediately revise Wichita's misguided annual rabies immunization policy and adopt the national triennial standard. Sincerely, Kris L. Christine Founder, Co-Trustee THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND www.RabiesChallengeFund.org cc: Diane McCartney, Wichita Eagle Attorney General Stephen N. 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Guest guest Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Rabies vax isn't about your dog...it's about people, children. rabies vax is a buffer between dogs/cats and the wild things that do have rabies. there is no cure for rabies, and in countries where vax is not the norm, a LOT of people die the horrible death of rabies. those statistics are out there, too. I agree we probably don't need to rabies vax as much as some do, or require...I do the 3 yr, per law...and if the tests allow us to do 5 or 7, will change, but I don't NOT give rabies, as it's the law, to protect people...and if someone doesn't give rabies, and exposes someone else to it, but such action, your dog can be quarantined, euthanised to send in the head, etc...and a major lawsuit, which I would back up...if you ever allow your unvax'd dog to go around other people... distemper, parvo, etc...is a personal choice, it's your dog...but rabies is a human health risk, and the ONLY reason for rabies vax...there is NO holistic cure, as some would have you believe. once you contract it...it's a death sentence, and a horrible way to die...and people in 3rd world countries, die horrible deaths every year. we no longer have the human cases in the US, as we did in years past, before rabies vax.... Theresa Bob, Theresa & Benjamin WegnerNovelty FarmSt James MO www.noveltyfarm.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 At 01:42 PM 3/27/2008, you wrote: I couldn't agree with you more! As you know, you don't actually have to be bitten to get rabies. The saliva on an open cut or wound, or on any mucous membranes such as the eyes, mouth or nose, from an animal with rabies transmits the disease as well. In July of 2007, there was a multi-state investigation of potential rabies infection due to a stray kitten that was found, then brought to a softball tournament. Naturally, lots of folks handled and played the kitten because it was so cute.One of the coaches took the kitten home. The following day, the kitten got ill, and was euthanized. It was determined the kitten had a type of rabies most often associated with raccoons. Turns out, that in the U.S. there are more cases of domestic cats getting rabies, than all of the other domesticated animals put together. One usually thinks of certain animals like raccoons, bats, dogs, cats and rodents, who get rabies. Cattle, pigs, or the cute bunny you just caught can have it too. It was interesting to read that in 2006 there was a horse stabled on the grounds of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville, Tennessee which was found to have rabies. They had to contact over 15,000 people in case any of them had come into contact with the horse. Potentially, people (since we're mammals) can also transmit the disease, although it's rare in the U.S..Only 27 cases have been reported in the U.S. since 1990. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/rabies/article_em.htm In May of 2006 a diagnosis of rabies was confirmed as the cause of illness in a Texas teenager, who had been hospitalized with encephalitis. Apparently, four to six weeks prior to admission, the teenager was awakened due to contact with a bat in his bedroom. No one thought anything had happened, so the bat was removed from the house. It wasn't tested. Unfortunately, the teen didn't go see a doctor until after symptoms had developed, so a rabies PEP (Post-exposure Prophylaxis) wasn't administered. Diagnosis was made by a positive direct fluorescent antibody test for rabies virus antigen. http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/ Lynn Rabies vax isn't about your dog...it's about people, children. rabies vax is a buffer between dogs/cats and the wild things that do have rabies. there is no cure for rabies, and in countries where vax is not the norm, a LOT of people die the horrible death of rabies. those statistics are out there, too. I agree we probably don't need to rabies vax as much as some do, or require...I do the 3 yr, per law...and if the tests allow us to do 5 or 7, will change, but I don't NOT give rabies, as it's the law, to protect people...and if someone doesn't give rabies, and exposes someone else to it, but such action, your dog can be quarantined, euthanised to send in the head, etc...and a major lawsuit, which I would back up...if you ever allow your unvax'd dog to go around other people... distemper, parvo, etc...is a personal choice, it's your dog...but rabies is a human health risk, and the ONLY reason for rabies vax...there is NO holistic cure, as some would have you believe. once you contract it...it's a death sentence, and a horrible way to die...and people in 3rd world countries, die horrible deaths every year. we no longer have the human cases in the US, as we did in years past, before rabies vax.... Theresa Bob, Theresa & Benjamin Wegner Novelty Farm St James MO www.noveltyfarm.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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