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The following are various articles on vaccinations affecting your pet.

  • This is a very interesting report! Bear in mind that there is no mandatory reporting of adverse reactions, and the 2007 World Small Animal Veterinary Association Vaccine Guidelines states that there is: "gross under-reporting of vaccine-associated adverse events which impedes knowledge of the ongoing safety of these products." World Small Animal Veterinary Association 2007 Vaccine Guidelines http://www.wsava.org/SAC.htm Scroll down to Vaccine Guidelines 2007 (PDF).

    Despite the extreme under-reporting of vaccinal adverse reactions, this report states on the second page that between April 1, 2004 and March 31, 2007, the Center for Veterinary Biologics, "requested manufacturers of rabies vaccines to provide adverse event report summaries for their products. During this period, nearly 10,000 adverse event reports (all animal species) were received by manufacturers of rabies vaccines..........Approximately 65% of the manufacturer's reports involved dogs."

    The report further states on the second page that: "Rabies vaccines are the most common group of biological products identified in adverse event reports received by the CVB."

    Regards, Kris Christine

  • UPDATE on The Rabies Challenge Fund!!
    The Rabies Challenge Fund has received IRS tax-exempt status (EIN # 84-6390682 as the official 501(c )(3) exempt registration). It has Public Charity Status 170(b) (1) (A) (vi). Effective Date of Exemption is December 12, 2005 and our Advance Ruling Ending Date is December 31, 2009. One of the world's leading authorities on veterinary vaccines, Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, will be conducting the rabies challenge studies. Dr. Schultz has been performing challenge studies on canine vaccines since the mid-1970's, and his data formed the scientific base for the American Animal Hospital Association's 2003 Canine Vaccine Guidelines. He is set to begin the rabies challenge studies as soon as the fund can raise the first year's budget of $177,000. The University of Wisconsin is waiving its overhead charges for these studies. The only expenses coming out of the pre-grant funds are those for filing annual returns with IRS -- there are no salaried officers, building costs, etc... Except for IRS fees, all the money donated to The Rabies Challenge Fund will go directly to funding these studies.
    Regards, Kris Christine
    Co-Trustee The Rabies Challenge Fund

    The Rabies Challenge Fund poster and more information can be accessed at the Pet Advocate's Town Hall Website.

  • U.S. free of canine rabies virus

  • About the Rabies Challenge Fund

  • Why Challenge Current Rabies Vaccine Policy?

  • Rabies Challenge Fund Reaches First-Year Goal:

  • The Vaccine Challenge

  • How Often Does He REALLY Need a Rabies Shot?

  • Get Out Your Wallets, Rabies Challenge Fund a Reality

  • Are We Overvaccinating our Pets?

  • Nationwide Campaign Launched to Fund Rabies Vaccine Study

  • News! The Rabies Challenge Fund

  • Pets: Rabies vaccine research may save some pain

  • Animal Drug Safety

  • Animal Drug Safety FAQ's

  • CVM Update - New Animal Drug Safety Page Posted on the CVM Website, June 22, 2006

  • Are our pets being over-vaccinated?

  • Fort Dodge to Dear Doctor letter re: Voluntary recall of RabvacT 3 TF vacine, Serial 873113A

  • Senate Committee Investigation into Wyeth/Fort Dodge Animal Health, Makers of ProHeart 6, and the FDA

  • GOING 2 CANADA? DON'T BRING YOUR DOG IF....

  • Wyeth Heartworm Drug Not Proven Safe - U.S. Panel

  • 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines

  • About - 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines

  • AVMA offers veterinarians vaccination resources

  • Educational Flyers

  • ATTENTION PET OWNERS - Class Action Law Suit

  • NBC - Still Vaccinating Your Pet Every Year? That May Not Be Necessary and May Even Cause Harm

  • Schultz, Dog Vaccines May Not Be Necessary (Dr. Ronald Schultz of U.Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine)

  • Pet Vaccines Could Turn Deadly

  • Veterinarian warns over-vaccination can harm pets - May 30, 2005

  • Safer Vaccinations for Companion Animals

  • Suspicious Shots

  • Pet Threat Coverage from NBC's Boston affiliate, WHDH Channel 7 News, coverage on Wednesday night 5/18/05. There is also an online petition http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/529849217#body that has been started by pet owners whose animals suffered adverse reactions to Rimadyl & other NSAID drugs. The petition requests that veterinarians be mandated to provide client information sheets for these veterinary medications.

  • Vaccinating Pets Could Do More Harm Than Good

  • LD429 Pet Vaccine Legislation

  • Vaccinate or Assassinate?

  • Canine Vaccine Survey

  • From ABC News on Annual Vaccinations

  • Article on the assault of vaccinations on our pets

  • Small animal vaccination protocol

  • Vaccinations - safe or sorry

  • Article of pet vaccinations

  • Annual vaccinations come under scrutiny

     CBS Austin - Vaccinations and Proheart 6

  • Truth about vaccines

  • Vaccination News

  • Examples of Vaccine Reactions in Great Danes

  • Vaccine Reaction Prevention

  • Dr. Jean Dodd's Vaccine Protocol

  • Puppy Vaccine Schedule

    From ABCnews.com: "Many veterinarians believe the practice of annual vaccinations is an unnecessary evil, responsible for such diseases as allergy, seizures, anemia, even cancer. They say vaccinations make our animals vulnerable to some of the top diseases plaguing our pets, and that rather than building up immunity we are overwhelming their immune systems. In 1991, three years after Pennsylvania issued a mandatory rabies vaccination requirement for cats, Dr. Mattie Hendrick's lab at the University of Pennsylvania noted a connection between the surprising increase in the number of sarcomas, or cancerous tumors, and vaccination in cats. It seemed that in some cats, rabies vaccinations were leading to an inflammatory reaction under the skin. Shortly after, researchers at the University of California at Davis showed that feline leukemia vaccines were also likely to cause sarcomas, and to an even greater degree than the rabies vaccine. Further investigating led researchers to estimate the prevalence of vaccine-induced sarcomas to be as much as one cat in 1,000, or up to 22,000 new cases of sarcoma a year. Soon, veterinary professionals began to suspect vaccination as a risk factor in other serious auto-immune diseases."

    More: Health Hazard of Routine Vaccination: placing our animals at risk

     

    VACCINATION:

    Charles E. Loops, DVM - "Vaccinations represent a major assault on the body's immune system. Routine vaccination is known to create short-term and long-term multitude of symptoms. "Read the comments of veterinarians who believe vaccines are damaging our pets at http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/petvacc.htm. Homeopathy is renowned for its success to antidote or remove the toxic effects of vaccines and to reestablish balance in the organism and restore health. Certain homeopathic remedies taken before and after vaccination can protect from vaccine damage. A professional homeopathic veterinarian should be consulted for more information. You can learn more about homeopathy's ability to reduce or repair damage caused by vaccines and alternative to vaccines at:

    More on Vaccinations

    Vaccinations, vaccinations, vaccinations. Dog and cat owners have been told by veterinarians and pet health care providers for years that annual vaccinations for Rabies, Distemper, Parvovirus, Feline Leukemia and on and on...are required yearly. Annual vaccinations, also called annual boosters, have certainly played a major role in disease prevention in dogs and cats. Nevertheless, the question recently on the minds of dog and cat owners has been... Do these vaccines have to be given every year? And a second and equally important questions is... are we vaccinating dogs and cats too much? Are we actually causing harm by over-vaccinating our pets? Read here for the full report.

    MEDICATION: Beware of drugs that your conventional veterinarian may give your animal. They are often ineffective and may have serious side effects. Frustrated with the failures of conventional veterinary medicine, Charles E. Loops, DVM, says: "After 10 years of traditional veterinary practice, I became tired of having no treatment for chronic disease, incurable conditions, and a plethora of allergic maladies which seem to plague all veterinary practices. I was frustrated with giving animals cortisone because I had no other solutions, or using antibiotics for infections which I knew were of viral origin. There is so much that can be done for an animal, bird, or reptile that is ailing by utilizing homeopathic medicine."

    Learn about the danger of antibiotics for your pets at http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/petbioti.htm. You can also learn about using HOMEOPATHY as an effective and safe alternative to antibiotics and other drugs for animals at http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/ahomeo.htm.

     http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/homeopat.htm#vaccine.


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