- Chesapeake Bay Retriever - Marie Thomas
No one is privy to the real immunity expiration information except the “medical experts”, veterinarians who pass along only the ‘recommended re-vaccination dates’.
Pet owners receive notices for too-frequent vaccinations that are unnecessary, expensive, and can cause auto-immune reactions sometimes resulting in illness or death of their pet. The public has a right to know the truth so they can make informed decisions.
In February of 2005, Kris Christine, a pet owner from Alna, Maine, testified before the Agriculture, Conservation, and Forest Committee to request them to pass LD429 – An Act to Require Veterinarians to Provide Vaccine Disclosure Forms.
It's a Medical Money Problem
William Campbell Douglass M.D., says “Millions are lining up every year to avoid illnesses we have almost no chance of catching… Vaccinations have become a billion-dollar money game… Drug companies use scare tactics to convince people to be injected with junk concoctions that… are causing far more health problems than they are preventing.”
Is there any reason to think that it’s any different with pets—or even more prevalent?
Vaccine Immunity Lasts Longer
A November 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine indicated that booster shots were often unnecessary because immunity lasted far longer than previously thought. The calculated half-life for smallpox antibodies averaged 92 years. Yet Fido and Petunia are dragged to the vet for baby shots, and then for a lifetime of annual boosters.
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) 2003 Canine Vaccine Guidelines, Recommendations, and Supporting Literature, a report available only to veterinarians, not lay people, states on page 18, that ”We now know that booster injections are of no value in dogs already immune, and immunity from distemper and vaccinations last for a minimum of 7 years based on challenge studies, and up to 15 years (a lifetime) based on antibody titer.” Thus nationally accepted science indicates that animals are protected for a minimum of 7-15 years after vaccination with distemper and other specific, tested vaccines.
Serious Side Effects
Other side-effects in cats, given by the AAHA, are dramatic increases in hyperthyroidism and cancerous tumors between the shoulder blades (where vaccines are given). Over-vaccination also frequently results in itchy skin reactions vets routinely diagnose as ‘flea allergy’, prescribing cortisone. This may provide temporary relief, while multiple cortisone shots result in weight-gain, thyroid instability from hyper- to hypothyroid, and severely shortened life spans. Today, vets often say the average cat in their practice ‘lives to age 12 or so’, a hard thing to hear when healthy cats should be living to 20 years old.
A Wall Street Journal article in July of 2002, entitled Vaccinations can have adverse effects, studies show, by Rhonda L. Rundle states: “In a policy statement last year, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) acknowledged that the practice of annual vaccinations is based on ‘historical precedent’ and ‘not on scientific data.’ ”
The AVMA’s Principles of Vaccination states “..revaccination frequency recommendations found on many vaccine labels … does not resolve the question about… maximum duration of immunity [Page 2] and.. may fail to adequately inform practitioners about optimal use of product…[Page 4] .” Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital states: “…booster recommendations for vaccines other than rabies virus have been determined arbitrarily by manufacturers.”
What Experts Do
Dr. Ronald Schultz, Chairman of the Board of Pathological Sciences at the U. of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, and a researcher at the forefront of vaccine research, is quoted as saying “My own pets are vaccinated once or twice as pups and kittens, then never again, except for rabies.” But the pet-owning public must be given this information, perhaps kept from them because it continues their flow of revenue.
Resource: Mercola Pet web site Articles.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/introducing-mercola-healthy-pets.aspx
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