Bordatella Vaccination for Dogs: Fraud and Fallacy

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com...cination-dogs/

Bordatella or Kennel Cough is commonly required by boarding kennels and
veterinary hospitals. These vaccinations are delivered to a staggeringly
large percentage of dogs and the reason is not to protect your dog: the
reason is to protect these facilities against liability.

The proprietors who push for these vaccines may be assuming more
liability than they can handle and the stakes are very high. The truth
is, the vaccines are not only ineffective but they are far from safe.
Yet they are routinely given to combat a self limiting disease that
amounts to as much danger to your dog as the common cold does to you.

What is interesting is that when you bring your dog to the vet for his
Bordatella vaccination, he will have already been exposed to the natural
flora: all animals are exposed to both Bordatella and Parainfluenza
prior to vaccination. It makes little sense to vaccinate an animal for
something he has already been exposed to.

There are at least forty agents capable of initiating Bordatella so
vaccination might appear to be prudent if it weren’t for the fact that
only two of these agents are contained in the intranasal vaccine. This
poor percentage truly makes the Bordatella vaccine a shot in the dark.
The lack of efficacy is well summarized by noted immunologist Dr. Ronald
Schultz: “Kennel Cough is not a vaccinatable disease”.

Despite the lack of any real effectiveness, the Bordatella vaccine is
routinely given and touted as safe, especially in the intranasal form.
Make no mistake however: the dangers and misinformation surrounding this
seemingly innocuous spray are just as tangible and frightening as any
other vaccination. A major problem with the Bordatella vaccine is that
it is part of a combination vaccine. Unbeknownst to most pet owners, the
Bordatella intranasal spray also contains Parainfluenza (the vaccine for
which is not surprisingly, just as ineffective as Bordatella). The
problems with the Parainfluenza portion
are threefold.

First, there is a real danger of dangerous immunological overload when
vaccinations are offered in combination. Second, like Bordatella, most
dogs have already been exposed to Parainfluenza, making the necessity of
vaccination questionable. Third, the Parainfluenza vaccine is just as
ineffective as the Bordatella vaccine because the vaccine does not
provide antibody against Parainfluenza where it is most needed: on the
mucosal surfaces.

Other dangers associated with the Bordatella vaccine are obviously not
far removed from the dangers associated with any other vaccination.
Although Bordatella is a bacterial vaccine, we now know that bacterial
vaccines present the same threat as Modified Live Vaccines. Modified
Live Viruses from human vaccines are now known to become incorporated in
the genes of the host and can shuffle, reassert, and reactivate thirty
or more years after vaccination.

Bacterial genes are capable of the same activity, lurking in the genetic
makeup, waiting to replicate and awaken. The intranasal Bordatella
vaccine has
been known to activate a previously asymptomatic collapsing trachea and
disrupt phagocytic activity which can progress to pneumonia. The toxins
from the vaccine will also kill the ciliated lining of the trachea,
creating a denuded area susceptible to anything coming down the
windpipe. Perhaps collapsing trachea, irritable tracheas and pneumonias
are all complications of Bordatella and the Bordatella vaccine.

Vaccination of any sort also elevates histamine which can promote
cancer, chronic inflammation and loss of tolerance. In general, all
vaccination creates immune dysregulation and is responsible for a vast
array of pathology. The Bordatella vaccine can wreak havoc outside the
body as well. Bordatella will shed from a vaccinated host for seven
weeks while Parainfluenza will shed for a week. This means that every
vaccinated dog is a walking dispenser of potentially damaging bacteria.

While the risk to other dogs is obvious, it should be of little concern
to healthy dogs because Bordatella is generally a self limiting disease.
What you might find surprising is that the shed bacteria is a risk to
other animals…and to people. The reason we now have a feline Bordatella
(and not surprisingly, a feline Bordatella vaccine), is likely thanks to
the widespread use and subsequent shedding of Bordatella from vaccinated
dogs to cats sharing the household. If this seems hard to imagine,
consider how dogs first fell victim to Canine Influenza.

Canine Influenza was initially documented in racing greyhounds. It is
worth noting that many of these dogs shared tracks with race horses:
race horses who are routinely vaccinated with Equine Influenza. It is
not a stretch to predict Bordatella will infect gerbils, hamsters and
rabbits in the near future and it is with certainty that the vaccine
manufacturers will be well rewarded with the continued fruits of their
canine Bordatella vaccine.

Not surprisingly, humans are not left out of the equation. Ruth
Berkelman MD (Former Assistant Surgeon General, US Public Health
Service) writes: “The potential for both exposure and for adverse
consequences secondary to exposure to veterinary vaccines in humans is
growing. Enhanced efforts are needed to recognize and to prevent human
illness associated with the use of veterinary vaccines”. Dr. Berkelman
noted that pertussis an whooping cough-like complaints in children
followed exposure to Bordatella bronchiseptica from the Bordatella
vaccine and it is no coincidence that Bordatella bronchiseptica and
whooping cough pertussis are very closely related. Interestingly, the
rate of whooping cough is highest in highly vaccinated populations.

Immunocompromised humans and animals are at an elevated risk of
infection from these canine vaccines. There is a recently reported case
of Bordatella bronchiseptica pneumonia in a kidney and pancreas
transplant patient who had to board and subsequently vaccinate her dogs
at a veterinary clinic while she was hospitalized. Vaccines contain
contaminating agents including mycoplasmas which are also very
communicable to humans and other mammals.

In the end, vaccination for Bordatella is at best fruitless and at
worst, a pathetic fraudulence at the hands of veterinarians and vaccine
manufacturers. It is up to you whether or not your dog receives this
vaccination and that is not overstating the obvious. Sadly, most pet
owners are aware of this but choose vaccination because they feel they
are at the mercy of boarding kennels, training schools and veterinarians.

/Patricia Monahan Jordan is a graduate of the North Carolina College of
Veterinary Medicine. She practiced conventional veterinary medicine for
twenty years and founded six different veterinary facilities in North
Carolina. Dr. Jordan has traced the paths of immunopathology to vaccine
administration and uncovered the cycle of disease and the endless cycle
of disease management that results from vaccine administration. Dr.
Jordan can be reached at www.dr-jordan.com./

You can tell what kind of air circulation pattern is built into a
boarding kennel by how strongly it enforces a requirement for
bordatella vaccination. If the air is re-circulated through the
heating-cooling system repeatedly, the facility will demand bordatella
immunization. If the system continually pulls in fresh air and expells
"used" air, there is often no mention made of bordatella vaccine. I
have used a kennel with the latter type system for the past 20+ years,
and have never brought home a case of kennel cough. Vets here generally
only give bordatella on owner request.

The rest of Char's posted article is paranoia.

Jo Wolf
Martinez, Georgia

On 4/1/2011 3:26 PM, Jo Wolf wrote:
The rest of Char's posted article is paranoia.

Do you have proof of that or are you just sharing an opinion without basis?