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Health Hazard of Routine Vaccination: placing our animals at risk

 

Health Hazard of Routine Vaccination: placing our animals at risk

 

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"Routine" vaccination has adverse side-effects, either short or long

term.

With vaccines that are repeated year after year, the frequency and

severity of these side-effects in our pets has increased

dramatically.

Most of the problems involve the immune system. After all, the immune

system is what vaccines are designed to stimulate. But they do so in

a very unnatural way that can overwhelm and confuse the immune

system."

donna starita mehan DVM

 

Dr. Ronald D. Schultz, Ph.D..- "Annual revaccination provides no

benefit and may increase the risk for adverse reactions. The

percentage of vaccinated animals (those vaccinated only as puppies)

protected from clinical disease after challenge with canine distemper

virus, canine parvovirus and canine adenovirus in the study was

greater than 95%."

Current and Future Canine and Feline Vaccination Programs. Dr. Ronald

Schultz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathobiological

Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison. Schultz,

R.D. - Current & Future Canine & Feline Vaccination Programs. Vet Med

3: No. 3, 233-254, 1998 more. A chart provided in the report shows

immunity levels for all vaccines currently given to dogs lasting a

minimum of 5 years with most lasting 7-15 years!

 

Don Hamilton, DVM -Yearly "boosters" are unnecessary, provide no

benefit if given (will not increase immunity). Thus boosters are

either a legal issue (Rabies) or a manipulation issue (inducing

clients to come in for examination rather than directly suggesting an

examination). more Richard H. Pitcairn, D.V.M., Ph.D - "For some

readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and

life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one.

After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern

medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from

the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox."

 

Charles E Loops DVM - "Homeopathic veterinarians and other holistic

practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more

 

harm than they provide benefits. Vaccinations represent a major

assault on the body's immune system.... Vaccine induced chronic

diseases range from life-threatening conditions such as auto-immune

crises to conditions destroying the quality of life of an animal as

in chronic skin allergies."

 

Dr. Dee Blanco, D.V.M - "You take healthy animals and often very

quickly after you vaccinate, you can see simple things like itching

of the skin or excessive licking of the paws, sometimes even with no

eruptions," said Dee Blanco, D.V.M., a holistic practitioner in Santa

Fe, New Mexico. "We see a lot of epilepsy, often after a rabies

vaccination. Or dogs or cats can become aggressive for several days.

Frequently, you'll see urinary tract infections in cats, often within

three months after their [annual] vaccination. If you step back, open

your mind and heart, you'll start to see patterns of illness

post-vaccination." (epilepsy/seizure)

 

More and more dogs have skin problems and Dr. Messonnier DVM writes

convincingly about over-vaccination and poor nutrition being major

causes.

 

"Many people are very concerned about vaccinating their animals and

the adverse reactions are often referred to as vaccinosis and miasms

which is said to be difficult or impossible to cure. Most wonder why

"annual boosters" are given to our animals when vaccinations for

humans last for our lifetime. Also asked is why isn't the dose

adjusted for the size of the animal? The many serious adverse

reactions may be grossly under-reported to the vet (insist on telling

the vet), to the manufacturer, and to the USDA Biologics Hotline

(report the reaction, manufacturer, and lot number ) at 800/

752-6255. The experts are now addressing these concerns and the First

International Veterinary Vaccines and Diagnostic Conference was held

in July 1997 regarding this important health issue. An excellent

article is by Don Hamilton, DVM who specializes in Homeopathy."

Helen L. McKinnon

 

"We should not allow politics and tradition or greed to enter the

decision (on frequency of vaccination). Changing vaccination

schedules doesn't have to mean less profit, but that you have more

income from some clients and less from others. Veterinarians and the

industry need to have guts to be honest with ourselves and assess the

risk and not be trapped in tradition."

-- Dr. Dennis Macy in "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?" AVMA Journal,

1995

 

" 55% of all illnesses reported by participants occurred within the

first three months of vaccination." Arthritis - Diarrhoea - Allergies

-Dry eye/conjunctivits - Epilepsy - Loss of appetite Nervous/worrying

disposition - Skin problems - Nasal discharges - Vomiting - Weight

loss - Behavioural problems - Tumour or growth."

Catherine O'Driscoll'

 

Vaccinations: All Veterinary Schools in North America Changing

Vaccination Protocols - Recent editions of the Senior Dogs Project's

newsletter have reported on the ever-broadening trend of eliminating

vaccinations for adult dogs, except for rabies, where required by

state law. We have now had a report that all 27 veterinary schools in

North America are in the process of changing their protocols for

vaccinating dogs and cats.

Here, in a nutshell, are the new guidelines under consideration:

"Dogs and cats immune systems mature fully at 6 months. If a modified

live virus (MLV) vaccine is given after 6 months of age, it produces

immunity, which is good for the life of the pet (i.e., canine

distemper, parvo, feline distemper). If another MLV vaccine is given

a year later, the antibodies from the first vaccine neutralize the

antigens of the second vaccine and there is little or no effect. The

titer is not 'boosted' nor are more memory cells induced.

 

"Not only are annual boosters for parvo and distemper unnecessary,

they subject the pet to potential risks of allergic reactions and

immune-mediated hemolytic anemia. There is no scientific

documentation to back up label claims for annual administration of

MLV vaccines.

Puppies receive antibodies through their mothers milk. This natural

protection can last 8-14 weeks. Puppies and kittens should NOT be

vaccinated at LESS than 8 weeks. Maternal immunity will neutralize

the vaccine and little protection (0-38%) will be produced.

Vaccination at 6 weeks will, however, delay the timing of the first

highly effective vaccine. Vaccinations given 2 weeks apart suppress

rather than stimulate the immune system. A series of vaccinations is

given starting at 8 weeks and given 3-4 weeks apart up to 16 weeks of

age. Another vaccination given sometime after 6 months of age

(usually at 1 year 4 months) will provide lifetime immunity."

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