Is Your Pet Animal Over-vaccinated?
Most of the vaccine safety questioning and advocacy issues have been about vaccinations for children, but very little media attention has been focused on our beloved pets, who also get inordinate amounts of vaccinations with resulting adverse side effects.
In my research networks, I’m very lucky to have a most vaccine-intelligent veterinarian who shares vaccine research information affecting both animals and humans, and for which I am truly grateful. Just the other day, Dr Patricia Jordan, DVM, sent information that prompted this article.
Probably readers may never have thought about the damage vaccines can do to Fluffy the cat, Spot the dog, or a favorite stallion you saddle up to enjoy a nice leisurely jaunt in the woods.
One study I’d like to direct readers to is “Effects of Vaccination on the Endocrine and Immune Systems of Dogs, Phase II”, Purdue University, November 1, 1999 and where I found information for it here. The opening paragraph states:
Concern has been growing among owners, breeders, and veterinarians that current vaccines cause immune-mediated diseases in dogs. Vaccination is highly effective in preventing infectious disease, but the safety of many vaccines and the frequency of their administration are being questioned. The Vaccine Research Group at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine has been conducting several studies to address these issues. In one such study, we are trying to determine if current vaccines cause changes in the immune system of the dog that will eventually result in life-threatening immune mediated diseases.
Another article to consider is the “AVMA Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents’ report on cat and dog vaccines” published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221(10):1401-1407, November 15, 2002. I’d like to call readers’ attention to the section “Vaccine Issues for Practitioners” wherein we find this amazing remark:
Vaccination recommendations used to be considered a simple part of animal care, but now are considered complex and controversial. [How true!]
Farther down in that article, we find this rather candid admission:
Vaccination is a potent medical procedure associated with benefits and risks for animals. [What about humans?!]
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