by Lynnel Jones
At least twenty years ago I began to see a correlation between canine vaccination and puppy deaths from the very diseases I immunized against. I saw skin allergies and metabolic difficulties. I began to hear cancer and amputation stories as puppies went to new homes and matured. It was a case of find a better way, or get out of dogs. This is when I turned to homeopathic disease prevention and the fresh raw diet.
Just as in recent years more and more people have taken control of their own health, more and more people are taking charge of their pets' health. They understand it is not in the best economic interest of veterinarians that their pets stay healthy. What is not so broadly understood is how long veterinary science has known the destructiveness of vaccine protocols yet maintained these antiquated protocols because of the impact of change on "the bottom line".
Although she is in the mainstream with regard to initial puppy shots, Jean Dodds, a practicing vet and vaccine researcher for more than thirty years, has found that boosters after six months do not enhance life-long disease immunity…but they do cause a wide variety of immune related diseases including anemia, arthritis, thyroid mal-function, liver failure, diabetes, various bone diseases and allergies. She says these vaccine-induced diseases affect at least twenty percent of purebred dogs. Rogers, a vet who still gives a booster at one year but no subsequent vaccines, states that in the thirty thousand dogs he has vaccinated for the last time at one year, there have been no vaccine failures.
Knowledge of these facts is universal to the veterinary and pharmaceutical industries. Why then do vets continue to bombard pets with vaccines? Light is shed by the 2004 cover story in Veterinary Economics. It discusses the financial hit vets will take if they change tactics. A related item in that issue notes that improving vet income is a top goal of the AVMA president-elect. Also referenced is the fact that vaccination reminders are the single tactic driving the income from healthy pet visits.
Whole Dog Journal explores the risk factors for the current crisis in canine cancer, citing among other factors: diet, vaccines, environmental toxins including lawn chemicals, flea and tic medications and tobacco smoke.
Here's a really scary question: If the articles cited apply to canines, might the conclusions and considerations also apply to people?
© Lynnel Jones February, 2008