Those Lucky Dogs (Vaccines - Dog & Human)

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Dr. Yazbak, a pediatrician, now devotes his time to the research of

autoimmune regressive autism and vaccine injury.

Those Lucky Dogs

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By Red Flags Columnist, F. Yazbak, MD, FAAP

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We have five pet “great-grandchildren:” Cracker, a golden retriever; Lola,

a bichon frise, whose buddy is a cat named Tessa; Charlie, a cavalier King

spaniel; and Yen, a 10-year-old, grey-and-white, all-American cat.

Charlie required a pre-adoption interview, 200 miles away from home and

cost as much as my first three cars combined. Yen came free from the

neighbors who moved to a no-pet condominium.

Four weeks ago, Lola received a rabies vaccine and developed a denuded spot

at the injection site on her hind leg. My daughter-in-law took her back to

the vet, who said the lesion could be ringworm and prescribed an ointment

($35) that seemed ineffective. Faced with that therapeutic failure and

knowing a ringworm lesion looks like a ring and not a disc, my

daughter-in-law crossed the state line with Lola to get a second opinion.

She was informed that certain rabies vaccines do cause lesions and that

another type might be better in the future for Lola.

At our family Christmas party, I was also consulted, as the family’s

vaccine expert. My first thought, kept to myself, was why does a lap dog,

which only leaves the house to be driven to the coiffeur, need to be

protected from rabies, when all what it does all day is prance from the

living room couch to the family room couch? A rabies vaccination for Lola,

I told myself, makes as much sense as an influenza vaccination for a

six-month-old baby, who is in a crib or a playpen at home. At any rate, I

examined the canine patient and the lesion and announced that if the

discoid denuded area was exactly at the injection site, the preponderance

of evidence suggested a causal relationship.

My daughter-in-law then asked me what she should do about the second shot

required by law, which is due in January. I was surprised at first, but

then remembered another analogy with childhood vaccination. I had traveled

to Boston with a friend in March 2001, so that we could testify in front of

the Massachusetts House of Representatives’ Joint Committee on Education,

Arts, and Humanities about the fact that three doses of hepatitis B vaccine

were not really needed to attend day care or kindergarten in the Bay State.

(1, 2)

Unfortunately, the committee believed our opponent, who said he had left

his important work at medical school to come and testify that among

children under five, hepatitis B is a very dangerous disease.

Committee members chose to forget what my friend had told them just minutes

earlier: Even in the adult population, the incidence of hepatitis B virus

infection is almost a non-issue. In fact, the incidence is so low that the

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had commented: “State level

incidence rates of hepatitis B are deemed unreliable. This item is not

amenable to survey data collection due to low incidence. National estimates

of hepatitis B incidence are corrected for underreporting by using an

algorithm that adjusts reported incidence upward by approximately 6-fold.”

In Massachusetts, there had been only 19 cases of hepatitis B disease in

the year 2000 or two cases per million residents. (2)

Talking of useless vaccines, the U.S. Senate voted before the Christmas

break to “immunize” drug manufacturers who are preparing to get wealthy

producing the “bird flu vaccine” for humans among whom the disease has

never spread. The CDC has decreed that we should get ready even if the

pandemic never materializes outside chicken coops. Interestingly, no one

bothered to comment about why — if, indeed, the vaccine is safe — the

manufacturers are so worried and why they need protection. On the other

hand, if the vaccine has problems, then why were we rushing into it now?

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) suggested that more

than one third of our Senators had reasons other than the national health

to protect the vaccine manufacturers. Apparently 38 Senators had $13.4

million in pharmaceutical holdings and were likely to increase the value of

their stock portfolios. (3, 4)

Obviously, because we cannot just print money to hand out to the bird flu

vaccine makers, we had to cut funding to “less important” programs. On Dec.

21, in a 51-50 vote with Vice President Dick Cheney breaking the tie, the

Senate gave final approval to a $39.7 billion package of spending cuts that

will make significant changes to Medicaid, Medicare and student loan

programs. (5)

The bird flu national vaccination program, or whatever it will be called,

has already caused an adverse reaction in Massachusetts. A report issued

two days after Christmas stated that local health authorities were

returning unused influenza vaccine stocks to the Department of Health

because there had been a lack of interest in vaccination in many

communities. The CDC propaganda machine had simply been too busy with what

was happening to Chinese and Korean chicks.

But back to dogs and rabies.

On Dec. 10, the Kerry Blue Terrier Foundation (6) donated $5,000 for

vaccine research to the Rabies Challenge Fund, which was created “to

improve the safety of rabies vaccines and to determine, by challenge, if

they confer immunity for five or seven years.” Rabies vaccination of

domestic cats and dogs, the only vaccination required by law, is believed

to be the cause of numerous and serious adverse reactions.

The Rabies Challenge Fund was established by renowned scientist and

practicing veterinarian, W. Dodds of California, and by pet vaccine

disclosure advocate, Kris L. of Maine, to raise money to fund

concurrent five- and seven-year canine rabies vaccine challenge controlled

studies. The estimated cost of that research is in excess of $1 million. In

addition, other funds will be collected to finance an independent study of

adjuvants and preservatives in the veterinary rabies vaccines and to

establish a rabies vaccine adverse reaction reporting system.

Dodds was quoted as saying, “As rabies vaccines are known to elicit severe

and even fatal adverse reactions, and are among the strongest vaccines

antigenically and contain potent adjuvants to bolster their immunologic

effect, giving them more often than truly needed is unwise, unnecessary,

and can be unsafe.”

Dodds received her D.V.M. degree with honors in 1964 from the Ontario

Veterinary College, University of Toronto. A year later, she joined the New

York State Health Department in Albany and began comparative studies of

animals with inherited and acquired bleeding diseases. She eventually

became the director of the hematology laboratory at the Wadsworth Center.

In 1980, she was also named executive director of the New York State

Council on Human Blood and Transfusion Services. This work continued

full-time until 1986, when she moved to Southern California and established

HEMOPET, the first non-profit national blood bank program for animals.

Again discussing rabies vaccines, Dodds has said, “To date, most states

require rabies vaccination every three years, but some states still require

annual rabies revaccination, even though the USDA licenses these vaccines

for three years.… Certainly, veterinarians are aware of the adverse

reactions that can occur after rabies and other vaccinations in dogs and

cats. “The public is the body most motivated to address the issues here,

because it is some of their beloved companions that have suffered by the

existing regulations.”

Challenge studies involve control groups and are conducted by challenging

pets with live virus five or seven years following vaccination. In 1992,

French researchers conducted challenge studies and reported that dogs were

still immune after five years. However, this research is not accepted in

the U.S. (Incidentally, French research by my good friend Marc Girard

revealed a relationship between multiple sclerosis and hepatitis B

vaccination and no one over here seems to take that seriously either.)

, Maine’s pet vaccine disclosure advocate, believes that research

into the safety of adjuvants, chemicals added to vaccines to enhance their

immune response is also much needed: “Unlike human vaccines where all

adjuvants are required to be the same, there is no such standardization in

veterinary medicine.… Hopefully, this study can be completed before the

five and seven years of the parallel challenge studies, to make vaccines

safer.” (7)

Evidently, according to human vaccine experts and a landmark article

published in January 2002, things are totally different with infants’

immune systems. (8)

“A more practical way to determine the diversity of the immune response

would be to estimate the number of vaccines to which a child could respond

at one time. If we assume that 1) approximately 10 ng/mL of antibody is

likely to be an effective concentration of antibody per epitope (an

immunologically distinct region of a protein or polysaccharide), 2)

generation of 10 ng/mL requires approximately 103 B-cells per mL, 3) a

single B-cell clone takes about one week to reach the 103 progeny B-cells

required to secrete 10 ng/mL of antibody (therefore,

vaccine-epitope-specific immune responses found about one week after

immunization can be generated initially from a single B-cell clone per mL),

4) each vaccine contains approximately 100 antigens and 10 epitopes per

antigen (i.e., 103 epitopes), and 5) approximately 107 B cells are present

per mL of circulating blood, then each infant would have the theoretical

capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time (obtained by

dividing 107 B cells per mL by 103 epitopes per vaccine). Of course, most

vaccines contain far fewer than 100 antigens (for example, the hepatitis B,

diphtheria, and tetanus vaccines each contain one antigen), so the

estimated number of vaccines to which a child could respond is

conservative. But using this estimate, we would predict that if 11 vaccines

were given to infants at one time, then about 0.1 percent of the immune

system would be " used up. " ”

I do not exactly understand the above statement, but I am not an

immunologist. And I have no reason to believe that it is not scientifically

correct; after all, it was peer-reviewed before publication. I have a

friend in Sweden who has challenged any vaccine expert to receive the same

vaccines we are now giving to infants at one time, adjusted for weight. He

has yet to find a “taker.”

When a group of parents said that mercury in vaccines was not a good idea,

the directors of IOM (Institute of Medicine) and CDC and all physicians

groups, but one, attested that the “small amount” of thimerosal in vaccines

could not possibly hurt anyone. They assured parents, “Thimerosal has been

used since the ’30s, vaccines save lives and now that the mercury has been

removed, vaccines are safe.”

For those interested in learning more about adjuvants and excipients in

vaccines, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

has a 114-page compendium on the subject. (9)

An important question now begs an answer. Are dog and cat lovers really

more concerned about their pets’ vaccinations and their problems than we

have been about pediatric vaccines and their ever-increasing number,

possible interactions and short- and long-term potential complications?

I hope not.

I do know that no parent group has ever collected or spent $1 million on

independent vaccine research.

For years, many of us have suspected that vaccines may cause regressive

autism in a certain percentage of genetically predisposed children.

We hear all the time about huge fundraisers and walkathons organized by

autism groups, sport figures and Hollywood stars. We never hear about any

of the collected funds supporting vaccine-focused research. V. K. Singh,

PhD, who discovered important and valuable information on autoimmune

responses in regressive autism, cannot find anyone to support his important

work, only because it might indict a certain vaccine.

Even more distressing is the fact that one of the two wealthiest autism

parents groups funded, along with the CDC, a much-celebrated study from

Denmark aimed at proving that MMR vaccine did not cause autism, while the

other group mostly funds genetic and exotic research to discover the causes

of a sudden epidemic of regressive developmental disorders.

While Dodds is trying to space out the one vaccine that is required for

dogs and cats, our vaccine experts are trying to squeeze in more than 22

vaccines before the age of 18 months by considering the new and improved

rotavirus vaccine. (10)

The December 2005 issue of Pediatric News has a front-page article entitled

“Maximize Vaccines at 18-Month Visit,” which ends with a sidebar called

“Get Up to Date.” It summarizes the advice on vaccinations given in a talk

at the most recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

According to the speaker, and as reported in Pediatric News, “if every

child made a visit at age 18 months and received all needed shots (up to

four injections) at the same time, 87 percent would be up to date by the

day they turned 19 months of age”.

Obviously, as we well know, “one” of the four injections contains

diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccines and “another

injection” is likely to contain four live vaccines against measles, mumps,

rubella and varicella. In other words, the 18-month-old baby would be

receiving nine vaccines in a few seconds. According to the IOM’s director,

that is not a problem because thimerosal has been removed from all vaccines

and, according to the authors of the safe 10,000 antigens revelation, nine

vaccines are truly a drop in the proverbial bucket.

The Pediatric News article went on “…the proportion of children up to date

would rise from the current 30 percent to 72 percent if such a program were

implemented.” To which the speaker said: “That is really dramatic.”

Commenting on the fact that field trials would be needed to back up the

real world effectiveness of this approach and that none is planned, the

speaker remarked: “We are entering a new budget year, so it is possible

that funding for this might become available.”

And if we have to knock out another Medicaid program, so what!

Oh, those lucky dogs! At least someone worries about them.

A Happy and Healthy New Year to all!

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Donations for rabies research can be sent to THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND, c/o

Hemopet, 11330 Markon Drive, Garden Grove, CA 92841.

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References

1. http://www.aapsonline.org/stateis/matest2.htm

2. http://www.aapsonline.org/stateis/matest.htm

3. http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/pr/?postId=5512

4. http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/SenPharma.pdf

5. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05356/626348.stm

6. http://www.kerryblues.info

7.

http://www.kerryblues.info/index.html?http%3A//www.kerryblues.info/RESOURCES

/NEW.HTML

8. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/109/1/124

9. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/vaccine/pdf/compendium.pdf

10. Vaccines — Like Apple Pies On A Conveyor Belt

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