What Do The Experts Say?
"The
practice of annual (pet) vaccinations lacks scientific validity or verification.
There is no immunological requirement for annual vaccinations. The practice
of annual vaccinations should be considered of questionable efficacy."
-- Kirk's Current Veterinary Therapy (The
Textbook Bible for Veterinarians)
"There
is strong and growing consensus among immunology and infectious disease experts
that annual vaccination (of dogs and cats) is neither necessary nor advisable.
The vast majority, if not all of the North American veterinarian schools,
are currently recommending reduced frequency of vaccination."
-- "Does My Pet Need Annual Vaccinations", American
Animal Hospital Association, 1999
"Our
adoption of this routine vaccination program (three-year vaccination) is based
on the lack of scientific evidence to support the current practice of annual
vaccination and increasing documentation showing that over-vaccinating has
been associated with harmful side effects. Of particular note in this regard
has been the association of autoimmune hemolytic anemia with vaccination of
dogs and vaccine-associated sarcomas in cats -- both of which are often fatal."
-- Colorado State University's Small Animal Vaccination
Protocol
"To
insure efficacy, manufacturers (of vaccines) for years have made
vaccines 10 times more potent than what is needed to challenge
the immune system."
-- "The Nature of Animal Healing", Martin Goldstein,
DVM
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Vaccine-related cancer in cats: According to Colorado State University
Professor Dennis Macy, "the incidence of this often fatal
cancer (sarcoma-cancer development at the vaccine site) has been
documented by several studies to be 1 to 3.2 per 10,000 cats receiving
a rabies vaccine If all the cats in Denver (estimated to be 400,000)
were to be vaccinated yearly for rabies, the unneeded additional
vaccinations would result in an additional 26 to 84 vaccine cancer
sites per year! I estimate 22,000 vaccine-associated tumors per
year. Since surgery is usually unsuccessful, radiation treatment
is necessary. Treating all these cats would cost $66 million per
year."
-- "Are We Vaccinating Too Much," Journal
of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1995
The "Benefit" of Annual Vaccinations
"Almost
without exception there is no immunologic requirements for annual revaccination.
Successful vaccination to most bacterial pathogens produces an immunologic
memory that remains for years. Furthermore, revaccination with most viral
vaccines fails to stimulate an anamnestic (secondary response) as a result
of interference by existing antibody."
-- Professors Tom Phillips and Ron Schultz, "Canine and
Feline Vaccines," Kirk's Current Veterinarian Therapy
XI
"Dr.
Mark Wood, representing the Animal Health Institute, a trade organization
for vaccine manufacturers has indicated the arbitrary revaccination label
on vaccines has no legal significance."
--Cite 24, Small Animal Vaccination Protocols,
Veterinary Teaching Hospital, College of Veterinary Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
"Vets
and kennels are demanding that pets are vaccinated unnecessarily, and the
owners are being fleeced. The veterinary profession and the vaccine manufacturers
should be subject to adequate external monitoring."
-- Professor Richard Lacey, former member of the Ministry of Agriculture
Veterinary Products Committee (VPC), United Kingdom
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