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Five Things Your Vet Says That Aren’t True



 
 
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Old June 23rd 12, 11:53 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.health
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Default Five Things Your Vet Says That Aren’t True

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At Dogs Naturally, we’re both saddened and amused when surfing through
veterinary clinic websites. We decided to post a Top Five List of
some of the just plain bad vaccine advice commonly dispensed by vets.
Here are some real snippets of wisdom, pulled off various veterinary
websites.

1. Prevention is better than cure. Vaccination is the way we cause
animals to become resistant (immune) to infections. A vaccine consists
of a modified or killed virus or bacterium. It is prepared in such a
way that the body’s defences recognise it as a threat and react to it
as if it were a real infection. The body will produce antibodies which
are proteins which recognise and attach to chemicals on the surface of
the organism, killing it. These antibodies are then available to kill
any of the real infection organisms the animal might pick up during
its life. They are lost gradually and the body needs occasional
reminders (booster vaccinations) to keep the antibody level high
enough to prevent real infections. Vaccination reactions are very
rare. A booster is recommended each year.

The body does not react to a vaccine the same way it would to the real
disease. When exposed to real virus, the body forms immunity by
filing that information away in memory cells. The memory cells,
called cellular immunity, are reponsible for mounting a quick attack
the next time they are faced with the same disease and the body, armed
with the knowledge the memory cells have stored away, quickly
neutralizes the disease by triggering circulating antibodies. This is
why humans only get chicken pox once and dogs can only get parvovirus
once. After the first episode, they are protected for life.

Vaccines try to emulate this, but they don’t do a complete job.
Vaccines stimulate circulating antibodies, called humeral immunity,
and they bypass the memory cells. This creates an artificial immunity
called humeral bias and this essentially turns the immune system
inside out. To learn more about this effect, read our article on
Vaccines And The Immune System.

But the real problem with this statement is wanting antibody levels to
be high. High antibody levels mean high levels of circulating
antibodies – or humeral bias. The higher the titer, the more
chronically inflamed the body is. This humeral bias and resulting
chronic inflammation result in many of the autoimmune diseases we
commonly see in dogs today: allergies, cancer, arthritis, diabetes,
bowel disease and many, many more. Vaccine reactions may be rare, but
the risk and severity of chronic disease that vaccines cause increase
with every vaccine given.

2. Your puppy vaccination course should be started at 6 weeks of age.
A primary vaccination is first given and a booster 2-4 weeks later.
This course must be completed before your puppy is fully protected.
Unfortunately the protection provided by vaccinating is not life-long
and hence an annual booster is recommended. At ________ veterinary
clinic we will send you out an annual reminder to ensure your pet is
kept up to date and protected.

Vaccinating a puppy at 6 weeks? According to veterinary vaccine
researcher Dr. Jean Dodds, only 30% of puppies will be protected from
a vaccine given at 6 weeks of age: yet 100% of them will be exposed
to disease when taken to the vet clinic for that shot. Moreover,
vaccines create immune suppression for 10 to 14 days. So, choosing to
vaccinate a puppy at 6 weeks means exposing him to the most disease
ridden location he could possibly be in – the vet clinic, creating
immune suppression so he is much more likely to get the disease he is
being vaccinating for, and all in exchange for a 30% chance the
vaccine will work. That’s a pretty high gamble with a puppy’s life.

The reason the vaccine is unlikely to work at that young age is
because the puppy is protected against disease with maternal
antibodies – immunity passed down from his mother. This protection
wanes over time, but is still pretty strong at 6 weeks. That’s why in
most cases the vaccine doesn’t work: the maternal antibodies are
strong enough to block the vaccine. Actually this should be in the
past tense: the maternal antibodies will be less effective after the
vaccine is given because vaccines cause immune suppression.

Problem number two is this statement: “This course must be completed
before your puppy is fully protected.” There are two problems with
this statement actually. One, you can’t be partially protected: it’s
like being a virgin, you either are or you aren’t. Either the immune
system has filed that information away or it hasn’t: there is no grey
area, you are either immune or you are not. As for the other problem,
a course of vaccines is not necessary: it only takes ONE vaccine to
protect a puppy – ONE. For more information on this, you might want
to read Taking The Risk Out Of Puppy Shots.

3. Primary pet vaccinations do not cover your animal for the rest of
their life, so annual booster vaccinations are required for continued
protection.

Wow,bad grammar aside, there is one very big problem with this
statement – a monumental problem of biblical proportions! Not only do
core vaccines last for the life of the animal, they’ve known about
this for about forty years! We won’t even go into why annual
vaccination is a very, very bad choice – because vaccinating every
three years or every five years is also a bad choice, based on unsound
science. Nuff said. Think we’re making this up? You might want to
read Lifelong Immunity: Why Vets Are Pushing Back for more
information.

4. At ______ Veterinary Hospital, we are aware of some of the
controversy currently surrounding immunization protocols. However,
until industry leaders and experts, such as the vaccine manufacturers
and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), arrive at some
definitive conclusions, we believe it to be in the best interest of
your pet and the general public to continue to adhere to our
established immunization protocols. We recommend that your pet should
receive annual boosters.

Controversy? Industry leaders and experts? Here is the crux of the
problem: these vets are waiting for the vaccine manufacturers and the
AVMA to decide how often to vaccinate. Don’t you think that both of
these entities have a financial interest in how often you vaccinate
your dog? Are they capable of making an unbiased recommendation?
Apparently not.

The report of the American Animal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine
Taskforce in JAAHA (39 March/April 2003) includes the following
information for vets:
‘Misunderstanding, misinformation and the conservative nature of our
profession have largely slowed adoption of protocols advocating
decreased frequency of vaccination; Immunological memory provides
durations of immunity for core infectious diseases that far exceed the
traditional recommendations for annual vaccination.’

‘This is supported by a growing body of veterinary information as
well-developed epidemiological vigilance in human medicine that
indicates immunity induced by vaccination is extremely long lasting
and, in most cases, lifelong.’

If you would like to read more about how vets arbitrarily chose the
period of three years for revaccination, even though they knew back in
2003 that vaccines lasted likely for the life of the dog, read
Lifelong Immunity And The AAHA Revaccination Guidelines.

5. Annual boosters are painless for your pet, and help to fight off
contagious illnesses throughout the year. The staff at ______
Veterinary Clinic are expertly trained in the welfare of your pet.

Any vet who advocates annual vaccinations – or even uses the term
booster – is clearly not expertly trained in the welfare of your pet.
In fact, most vets are woefully inept when it comes to understanding
immunity. They are very good at giving vaccines – yet most vets are
not taught very much about immunity at all. Perhaps that’s because
immunity is taught by the vaccine manufacturers – it’s no wonder that
vets are well armed with needles yet lack the knowledge to question
just what damage those needles are doing. If you would like to learn
more about how little vets feel they were taught about vaccination,
and the disease they saw vaccines create in their patients, read our
ground-breaking featured article, Vets On Vaccines.

In the end, it doesn’t matter whether vets spew this bad advice out of
ignorance or for financial gain (most veterinary practices rely on
vaccine money to stay in business). Either way, the bad advice is out
there and dog owners – and dogs – will fall victim to that bad
advice. If you find your vet dispensing bad vaccine advice, don’t
ignore it. Perhaps reading and sharing What Every Vet (And Pet Owner)
Should Know About Vaccines will help you both to begin understanding
that vaccination involves more than just shots and boosters.
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Old June 24th 12, 07:02 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.health
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Oh, good grief..... She's back again......

Jo Wolf
Martinez, Georgia, USA

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Old July 7th 12, 01:03 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.health
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Jo Wolf wrote in rec.pets.dogs.health:

Oh, good grief..... She's back again......

Jo Wolf
Martinez, Georgia, USA


Yup, Char never left, she just morfed names. Just as dangerous an
advisor to dog owners as ever.

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