Companion animals are suffering chronic diseases previously unknown in pets - allergies, asthma, arthritis, ear infections, thyroid disease, heart disease, kidney failure and cancer. While dogs and cats can live with some of these afflictions, the symptoms are costly to manage, detrimental to quality of life and shorten the life span of family pets.  Others are deadly.

Vaccine associated sarcoma (VAS) occurs in as many as 10 in every 10,000 vaccinations.  It can take five years to manifest.

Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (ITP) are diseases associated with over-vaccinating dogs and cats  in which the body's own immune system attacks and destroys its red blood cells (IMHA) or platelets (ITP).  A higher incidence of IMHA is seen in dogs within a month of vaccination. Prognosis is guarded. 

Why?

The opinion of the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents states,

“Local and regional regulatory authorities mandate revaccination schedules including some that are more frequent than necessary as demonstrated by scientific evidence." (Ref: Klingborg, Hustead, Curry Galvan, AVMA Council On Biologic and Therapeutic Agent’s report on cat and dog vaccines, JAVMA,Vol 221, No 10, Nov 15, 2002.)

I am a responsible pet owner. My dog and all the cats in my life have been hauled to the vet's office annually  and religiously inoculated with booster vaccines.

Sissy, my first calico cat, was vaccinated and re-vaccinated thus and lived to the ripe old age of 20. At age 13, Aimee was euthanized with renal failure within 18 months of her last rabies re-inoculation.

Seeing her health issues through the prism of today's vaccinology research, I can see the signs of adverse vaccine reactions historically in skin allergies and cystitis. Homeopathic veterinarians call this effect "vaccinosis." 

In 13 years, on the recommended schedule, Aimee had received 135 antigens. Yet, according to the most recent recommendations of the American Association of Feline Practitioners, 32 antigens would have been more than adequate to protect her.

By contrast, you and I are vaccinated once as a child for smallpox and are protected for life.

"There has never been a cat develop rabies that has had one rabies shot in its life. The last case of a human getting rabies from a cat was 1979 in Indiana."
~Robert L Rogers, DVM, Houston, Texas
 

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