interesting read about vaccines from Complementary Health for Dogs

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I have no idea why this knowledge is not applied to humans? All drugs are tested

on animals anyway!

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Post #6 VACCINES--For HEALTHY Dogs ONLY!

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Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:47:37 -0500

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Vaccines are intended to be administered to HEALTHY dogs -- it is an advisory

issued on vaccine labels, in veterinary literature and guidelines, as a dog's

health status can have an impact on a vaccine's effectiveness and fail to elicit

an immune response. Startlingly, the AAHA task force indicates (see quote below)

that vaccination in a " severely immunosuppressed " dog can result in the dog

acquiring the disease it is being vaccinated to prevent!

On Page 24 of the 2006 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine

Guidelines, its states under the " Sick Dogs " heading that: " As with pregnant

dogs, veterinary medicine has advised against vaccination during illness, due to

concerns about suboptimal seroconversion, or worse, conversion of vaccine to

disease. " In other words, if you vaccinate a pregnant or sick dog, not only do

you run the risk of a less-than-desirable immunological response, but you run

the risk of your dog contracting the disease it is being vaccinated against!

Under the " Immunological Factors Determining Vaccine Safety " column on page 16

of the American Animal Hospital Association's 2003 Canine Vaccine Guidelines it

is written that: " ...an attenuated pathogen in a host which is severely

immunosuppressed, or genetically more susceptible, may result in the vaccine

causing the disease for which it was designed to prevent. " Further on that page,

under " The Immune System and Frequency of Revaccination, " it cautions that:

" When vaccinating an animal, the age of the animal, the animal's immune status,

and interference by maternal antibodies in the development of immunity must be

considered. Research has demonstrated that the presence of passively acquired

maternal antibodies significantly interferes with the immune response to many

canine vaccines, including CPV [parvo], CDV [distemper], CAV-2 [hepatitis] and

rabies vaccines. "

The Merial Imrab 3 vaccine label for dogs and cats, click here:

http://merialusa.naccvp.com/prodlist...country & p=msds and then click on IMRAB 3,

then on " label " : " INDICATIONS: IMRAB® 3 is recommended for the vaccination of

healthy cats, dogs,sheep, cattle, horses, and ferrets 12 weeks of age and older

for prevention of disease due to rabies virus. "

For Rabvac 3 http://wyethc.naccvp.com/view.php?pr...country & p=msds click on

" label " " Rabvac 3 is a killed virus vaccine for the vaccination of healthy dogs,

cats and horses against rabies. "

This link http://www.knowbetterdogfood.com/dog...ccinations.php will take you to

an article by Dr. Moira Drosdovech entitled Pet Vaccinations - A Time for

Change, in which she states what all the veterinary medical schools and vaccine

companies declare, that: " Although I have stated this in previous articles, I

cannot emphasize enough that any pet receiving a vaccination should be 100%

healthy. This excludes vaccinating pets with any health problems whatsoever,

including diseases in " remission " such as skin diseases, cancer, thyroid

problems, to name a few, and especially not those with a history of autoimmune

disease. Please understand that you are not benefiting your pet at all by

vaccinating while unhealthy. "

 

Combination Vaccines, Multiple Shots -- on Page 16 of the 2003 AAHA Guidelines

under Immunological Factors Determining Vaccine Safety, it states that:

" Although increasing the number of components in a vaccine may be more

convenient for the practitioner or owner, the likeli-hood for adverse effects

may increase. Also, interference can occur among the components. Care must be

taken not to administer a product containing too many vaccines simultaneously if

adverse events are to be avoided and opti-mal immune responses are sought. "

If anyone would like copies of the American Animal Hospital Association's Canine

Vaccine Guidelines, the 1992 French challenge study demonstrating that dogs were

immune to a rabies challenge 5 years after vaccination, the 2003 Italian study

documenting fibrosarcomas at the presumed injection sites of rabies vaccines in

dogs, as well as Dr. W. Dodds' papers on vaccinal adverse reactions, please

e-mail me at ledgespring@....

Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and Don't Know, Dr.

Schultz http://www.cedarbayvet.com/duration_of_immunity.htm

 

The 2003 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine Guidelines are

accessible online at http://www.leerburg.com/special_report.htm .

 

The 2006 American Animal Hospital Association's Canine Vaccine Guidelines are

downloadable in PDF format at

http://www.aahanet.org/PublicDocumen...s06Revised.pdf .

 

Veterinarian, Dr. ,has an excellent presentation on veterinary

vaccines at http://www.newvaccinationprotocols.com/.