Rabies Vaccination For Dogs – Beware the Health Risks
Posted in Wellness Dog Food Articles on 10/23/2009 04:30 am by adminAlthough most people think of vaccines as safe and protective vaccination procedures to a serious disease with significant risks. The rabies vaccine, the vaccine is only PET not required by law, the most dangerous vaccine for dogs and cats, and only if we give him much more often than is necessary to protect people and dogs. And you know well: a Chihuahua puppy gets exactly the same dose shot as an adult German mastiff? This increased antigen load in relation to body size is probably small dogsto even greater health risks.
Immediate adverse reactions after vaccination are easy to recognize: vomiting, facial swelling, fever, lethargy, circulatory shock, loss of consciousness and even death. Non-immediate reactions, until several days or even months after vaccination are:
– Fibrocarcinomas (cancer) at the injection site
– Seizures and Epilepsy
– Autoimmune diseases, such as the effects on bone marrow, blood, cells, joints, eyes, kidneys, liver, intestine andcentral nervous system
– Chronic digestive problems
– Allergies
– Skin Diseases (small dogs are especially susceptible to ischemic dermatopathy and panniculitis)
– Muscle weakness or atrophy, especially lack of coordination Heck
– Pica (eating inappropriate materials, including feces)
– Behavioral problems: aggression, destruction, separation anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder behaviors like tail chasing and paw licking
Perhaps because it is required byRight, some conventional veterinarians warn about side effects from this vaccine. Delayed for various reasons, and unusual reactions rarely reported to the manufacturer or the FDA.
Given the risks … We should not be vaccinated, just as often as necessary to protect dogs and people? Yes, but that's not what happened. Although showing blood antibody titer tests, that the rabies vaccine provides immunity for seven years and occupies a 1992 French "challenge" study, at least five years of protection for mostAreas require vaccination of adult dogs every three years. Some U.S. towns require annual or biannual vaccination, even if the "three years is turned" by producers give guarantees of immunity of three years. If this were not bad enough, the three-year shot is often the one-year shot relabled easy to meet local needs to be.
Can you avoid the rabies vaccine? If your dog has a well-documented history of health problems, and a low probability of contracting rabies, yourVeterinarian may be for a deferral or an exemption in many areas. A blood test for antibody titers (expressed as stringent) shows strong antibodies against the disease, your case may help, but not by yourself, you will receive an exemption. For inexplicable reasons, refuse to apply some veterinarians, exceptions and some places refuse to offer them. Ironically, high titer is not repeated administration, the only proof that a dog has immunity.
By the way, according to the CDC, rabies is no longertransmitted dog to dog in the United States. Your dog can contract rabies just by a wild animal like a bat, fox or coyote.
We Can Change Outdated Laws
Since the USDA supported the vaccines for animals that will not accept blood, or foreign studies together as evidence of the vaccine duration of immunity, which affected American dog lovers to the research needed to extend the time between vaccination and to make the vaccine Fundto make safer.
Nationally renowned pet vaccination experts Drs Jean Dodds and Ronald Schultz (Chairman of the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) to volunteer their efforts to test the vaccine. The University has waived its usual overhead fee (usually 48% of direct costs). Concurrent five-and seven-year studies with USDA inspection records that are currently determining the duration of vaccine protection. Phase II of this study will examine the safetyPromoting agents of the shot (so-called adjuvants) into account and executed a much-needed system for reporting adverse reactions. This study offers the possibility of the health of every dog in America improved.
Learn more about side effects, vaccination exemptions, titer tests, and rabies Challenge Fund, and watch our entertaining, but informative video of rabies vaccine on our site.