1. Stay informed
Aimee's Law Blog keeps you up to date on rabies reform activities nationwide among many other important topics related to the health and happiness of family pets.
2. Join a group
Several Yahoo Groups offer a wealth of information and generous support to dog and cat owners who want to learn more about rabies vaccine damage, state and local rabies laws, alternative medical treatments to reverse vaccine damage and much more.
Rabies Vaccination Challenge / Tennessee
2. Write your State Representatives
Currently only seven states grant rabies medical exemption: CA, MA, ME, NJ, NY, WI. Since 2003, 33 states have extended the interval for rabies booster shots to three years. The remainder - along with many counties, cities, towns and villages - live in the Dark Ages mandating rabies vaccination yearly, with no allowance for family pets that are pregnant, aged or in the care of a licensed veterinarian for acute or chronic illniess.
Yet committed dog and cat owners in Kansas, Wyoming, Maine, Wisconsin and other states are beginning to win meanginful reform of rabies laws by educating their elected officials. Here is a link to find yours.
3. Report your experience
Veterinarians are not required
by law to report adverse reactions to vaccines, to which the World Small
Animal Veterinary Association stated in their 2007 Vaccine Guidelines that
there is: "gross under-reporting of vaccine-associated adverse
events which impedes knowledge of the ongoing safety of these
products."
And in an article entitled, A New Approach to
Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems,
(JAMA - June 2, 1993. Vol.269, No.21. p.2785) Dr. David Kessler,
former head of the Food & Drug Administration, reported that "only
about 1% of serious events are reported to the FDA."
If you or
anyone you know has lost a dog or cat due to an adverse reaction to rabies
vaccine, report it to:
USDA Center for Veterinary
Medicine
and the
FDA Adverse
Drug Experience Reporting
System.
Support the Rabies Challenge Fund
Based on continuing studies, it's possible that the interval between re-vaccination with rabies can be extended five years, seven years or a lifetime, like your smallpox vaccination.
Animal vaccine makers did no studies to actually determine the duration of immunity conveyed by rabies vaccine. Now concerned veterinary professionals are taking up the challenge.
The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust will determine the duration of immunity conveyed by rabies vaccine. The goal is to extend the required interval for rabies boosters to five and then to seven years. This project depends primarily upon grassroots gifts for funding the costs of conducting the requisite vaccine trials.
Go to the Rabies Challenge Fund
Support Safer Vaccinations for Companion
Animals
The government, in cooperation with the veterinary professional
community, should enact and enforce a "standard" set of administrative
guidelines concerning: a). the frequency and location of any vaccination
and b). accurate record keeping for both feline and canine vaccinations;
taking into consideration each animal's lifestyle, health and age.
Veterinarians should then be held accountable to this "standard of
care".
Go to Safer Vaccinations for
Companion Animals
Support the Veterinary Vaccine Injury
Act
It is imperative that veterinarians educate their clients
concerning the associated risks of vaccines. Pet owners need to make
educated decisions regarding the care of their beloved pets.
Go to the Veterinary Vaccine
Injury Act
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