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Vaccinations...Needed or Not?
Time was when you brought your
dog to the vet every year for his shots. Times have changed.
| People don't need yearly
revaccinations. And veterinarians and immunological researchers now
realize...neither do dogs. |
What is a
vaccine...and how does it work?
A vaccine does not attack
disease. A vaccine IS a disease.
A vaccine is a weakened (diluted) version of an actual disease, such
as distemper or parvovirus.
When your dog is injected with this vaccine, his immune system is
supposed to react by forming antibodies against that disease. These
antibodies (created by his own immune system) are what protect him in
case he comes in contact with the real disease.
Please read that again.
Because you may have thought it was the vaccine itself that
protected your dog, perhaps by hiding somewhere in his bloodstream until
needed, then attacking the disease if it ever tried to sneak its way
into your dog.
No. A vaccine is simply the original catalyst that urges the immune
system to produce antibodies. Thus, it is your dog's
own immune system that protects him
against disease.
The question then becomes:
"How many vaccinations are necessary for a dog to form enough
antibodies to protect him against a particular disease?"
The simple answer used to be: One per year. The "annual booster
shot."
Annual booster
shots are no longer needed
That means...the immune system
"has a memory". Once it has been shown what to do (by the initial puppy
vaccinations), the adult's immune system continues to produce antibodies
against that disease...for years and years,
probably for life. Annual reminders are not needed.
That means...booster shots are
not only not needed but actually interfere with the
antibodies your dog has already formed.
| Dr. Phillips and Dr.
Schultz finish the article with this bombshell...the real reason why
vets continue to insist that dogs require annual vaccinations:
"The practice of annual vaccination in our opinion should be
considered of questionable efficacy unless it is used as a
mechanism to provide an annual physical examination."
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This is why vets continue to
vaccinate dogs every year. Each vaccine costs them less than $2.00. They
charge you $15 or more...plus the office visit. It is in your vet's best
financial interest that you bring your dog in every year.
If you're
thinking..."Well, even if yearly shots aren't necessary, they don't do
any harm, right?"
On the contrary. Vaccines are
NOT harmless.
Yearly
vaccination is harmful
- Some vets will try to
vaccinate your dog for distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis,
parainfluenza, parvovirus, coronavirus, bordatella, and rabies. All at
the same time. Pumping in so many
diseases...every year...is a terrible overload that can destroy the
immune system. And for no reason, since the antibodies are
already there.
- It says right on the label
that vaccines are to be given ONLY to healthy dogs. Yet dogs suffering
from allergies, skin conditions, ear infections, digestive upsets,
obesity, and so on, are routinely vaccinated. Dogs on steroids and
antibiotics are vaccinated.
Dogs in the hospital for surgery -- already physically and
emotionally stressed -- are vaccinated. Elderly dogs are vaccinated.
How can these individuals possibly be considered healthy? Their
immune systems, already fighting against stress, illness, or old age,
cannot respond positively to the vaccine, only negatively.
- No records are kept on how
many dogs catch the disease from the very vaccines that are supposed
to be protecting them. Numerous individuals, especially puppies,
suffer distemper and parvo symptoms shortly after being vaccinated.
Other individuals develop illnesses later, in such a common pattern
that it is easy to connect them to recent vaccinations. The medical
name for this syndrome is vaccinosis.
You might breathe a sigh of relief that your dog has "breezed
through" a vaccination with no immediate reaction.
In reality, you have no idea what is going
inside him. The real problems may surface next month or
next year.
Take this to
your vet...
| Finally, the AVMA
article ends with the sensible reality that...
"We have to change our focus from a yearly
vaccination to a yearly physical." |
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