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FACT ONE:
The
first fact is this: Annual vaccination is fraud. Strong stuff, eh? There
is absolutely no scientific basis for annual vaccination. It was just a
practice that was started many years ago, probably because the shots weren't
working and someone had the bright idea to kekep repeating it in case it
helped. In fact, we have discovered that, far from helping, annual vaccination
is destroying our animals' immune systems. This is widely known in scientific
circles - but vets are reluctant to look at the evidence too closely die
to potential lost booster income. I am sorry to say this but long years
of campaigning allow me to develop no othe conclusion. The vets who have
read my book they take it very seriously. However, most refuse to read
it.
"Once immunity to a virus exists, it persists for years or life." Dr. Donald
D. Schultz, head of patholbiology at Wisconsin University. My own six-year-old
Golden Retriever - Gwinnie -gives a good example of this. Gwinnie was vaccinated
ONLY as a puppy. We got her when she was five months old, already vaccinated.
She was never vaccinated again. Last year, at the age of six, Gwinnie had
a blood test and this revealed that she still has high antibody levels
to distemper and parvo. The advice from Professor Hal Thomson at Glasgow
University was "no need to revacciate." After SIX years.
Dr Jean Dodds
in America has just completed study that shows much the same thing. You
don't NEED to keep vaccinating your dogs. There is one exception, and this
is the leptospirosis component of the vaccine. Lepto is a bacteria, not
a virus, and you can't get permanent immunity to a bacteria. However, the
vaccine has been described as useless and there have been many calls for
it to be withdrawn from the market. There are hundreds of strains of leptospirosis,
but only two in vaccine, AND it provides immunity (if at all) for only
between three and six months. This means that your dog is probably unprotected
against the two strains for around nine months of the year, and against
all the other hundreds of strains for ever. Australian research shows that
the lepto component of vaccines can cause horrendous side-effects, so top
veterinary immunologists, microbiologists and pathobiologists have advised
we don't use it.
FACT TWO:
Vaccines can
cause a whole range of diseases.
Skin problems:
Frock and Brooks, in 1983, showed that dogs who were genetically susceptible
to develop atopic dermatitis ONLY contracted the conditions IF they were
vaccinated before being exposed to an allergen. So -vaccines trigger skin
disease.
Arthritis:
there are many, many sudies which show that vaccines can cause arthritis.
Vaccine components have even been found in the bones of arthritis sufferers.
Cancer:
Vaccine components have been found at the cancer sites of victims. Worse,
they have been found at the cancer sites of the CHILDREN of the people
who received the guilty vaccine. In other words, vaccines can cause inheritable
cancer.
Leukemia:
Dr Jean Dodds has linked leukemia to vaccines. Also, Merck, a vaccine manufacturer,
has linked leukemia to a leukemia-like retrovirus found in birds. Merck
was investigating the link between this retrovirus and the eggs they cultivated
the measles vaccine on. Distemper and measles are virtually the same virus,
and both vaccines are cultivated on chick embryos.
Aggression:
Vaccines are acknowledged to cause inflammation of the brain and, in severe
cases, lesions in the brain and throughout the central nervous system.
This condition, known as encephalitis, lies at the root of much aggressive
and violent behavior, autism, epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, and
other neurological conditions (for example, CDRM, Ataxia, ect.).
Autoimmune
disease: It is widely acknowledged that vaccines can cause a whole
range of autoimmune diseases, such as Cushings disease, Addisons disease,
thyroid disease, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and many others.
The scientific
evidence is there for anyone who wants to look at it. Dr. Larry Glickman
at Purdue University has found that routinely vaccinated dogs develop auto
antibodies to a wide range of their own biochemicals. This means that vaccines
cause dogs to attack their own bodies - which is what autoimmune disease
is all about.
FACT THREE:
Some animals
are genetically predisposed to suffer fatal reactions to vaccines, or to
develop vaccine-induced disease. The Merck Manual (the doctors bible, published
by a vaccine manufacturer) says that children with B and/or T cell immune
deficiencies should not receive live virus vaccines as the vaccine can
stimulate a severe or FATAL infection. Not to put too fine a point on it,
'fatal' means death. Merck explains that features of B and T cell immune
deficiencies include eczema, dermatitis, heart disease, inhalant allergies,
food allergies and neurological conditions. They say that humans suffering
with any of these conditions, or from families with these conditions, should
not receive live virus vaccines because the vaccine can kill them. Our
dogs also have B and T cells, and B and T cell immune deficiencies. So
if your dog has allergies, or heart problems, or neurological problems
. . . . . .vaccines represent a life threatening risk.
FACT FOUR:
Vaccines cause
more diseases than they prevent. This is the one the scientists are currently
arguing about. You can probably guess which way I've fallen on the debate.
In my humble opinion, vaccination is probably the worst thing we can do
for someone we love. Obviously, this is a scary statement. Let me tell
you a little about why I'm here saying this to you. Oliver, a beautiful
Golden Retriever, lost the use of his back legs one day when he was four
years old. We rushed hm to the vet but he was dead by four that afternoon.
For two years, I asked every vet I met 'why?' No one could tell me until
I met a homeopathic vet called Chris Day, and he asked me when Ollie had
last been vaccinated. He told me it was a classis vaccine reaction, failing
within three months of the shot. Since then I have met many people whose
dogs died in exactly the same way. Prudence, another Golden Retriever,
died of leukemia when she was six. The last time I vaccinated her, her
eyes rolled in her sockets, and she climbed up on my back, begging me not
to have it done. But we carried on because I thought it was good for her.
Distemper and parvo are horrible diseases, of course - but so is leukemia.
You don't want to see a dog die this way. Samson's back legs were paralyzed
the day after his second puppy shot. I thought maybe someone had put poison
down because I didn't know vaccines could do this. The next year he was
boosted, and his head swelled up like a football and he ran around screaming
- I now know that this was a massive allergic reaction to the vaccine.
At the age of two we had a blood test done, and it came back autoimmune
disease. He died of cancer at the age of five. Having studied the scientifuc
evidence, I know that Sammie was killed the day a vaccine destroyed his
immune system. Edward and Daniel are three-year-old Golden Retrievers.
Neither has ever been vaccinated. Not once. They are the healthiest two
Goldens I have ever had the privilege to share my life with. No sickness,
no diarrhea, no allergies, no illness. The vet doesn't know who they are
- they have only ever visited to have their blood tested (both have antibodies
to distemper and parvo......which means they've met the diseases but not
succumbed). They also went to the vets a few weeks ago to have ticks
removed. The vet remarked on how fit and healthy they were. But that's
it - their entire veterinary history at the age of three. Compare this
with Samson's veterinary history! I was literally at the vet every two
weeks with Sammie. Edward and Daniel are fed real food -raw meaty bones,
vegetables, etc. This means that they have optimal immune systems, so they
are in a good position to fight any viruses or bacterias that come along.
They also receive the homeopathic vaccine alternative. When they were nine
months old, my older vaccinated dogs contracted kennel cough. My two homeopathically
protected pups didn't cough once. A few days ago on the CHC discussion
list, one of our members reported meeting two 17 year old Golden Retrievers
on the beach. Both ran and jumped around like young ones. The owner told
her that they had never been vaccinated and, as he was a butcher, he had
fed them raw meat. Seven years into the campaign, we are beginning to see
the results of not vaccinating and feeding real food. Canine Health Concern
members are now constantlyl reporting that their dogs are incredibly healthy,
and those who show are winning at all the shows.
Don't blame
the 'irresponsible breeders' - blame vaccines. Without vaccines, you too
can hope for long-lived friends who get through their lives without the
crippling debilitating diseases that have become common in the dog population.
One last fact:
Vaccines don't offer GUARANTEED immunity. Nearly all
of the dogs in the CHC vaccine survey -which involved over 4,000 dogs and
is still ongoing - contracted distemper, parvo, lepto, hepatitis, etc,
within three months of being vaccinated.
I know this
article is going to upset many people and I apologize for this. My motivation
is that you don't have to sit and watch your beloved friends die years
before their time, or suffer from any of the many vaccine-induced diseases.
We ar making a terrible mistake on behalf of our animal friends. What we
think is best for them is in fact the worst thing we can do. I am not alone
in saying this --the very top veterinary specialists agree. We just need
to get the other vets up to date. I promise you this - annual vaccination
is coming to an end. We will look back in horror at what we used to do
!!!
Several years ago, we went through the most horrible 3 years of fighting
Parvo in our own kennels.
Parvo first broke out in a beautiful litter of chihuahuas that were four
months old. This litter had already been through the whole regime of shots
that started at 6 weeks and consisted of shots every two - three weeks
until they had had a series of 4. We thought they were safe. At this time
we had 4 litters in varying stages of vaccination. One by one, these babies
stopped eating, became lethargic, vomiting, seizures and death. Once the
symptoms began it spread like wild fire and there was no relief for our
beautiful babies. Once sypmtoms started, they were usually dead within
12 hours. Nothing saved them or lessened their suffering. No one
seemed to be able to offer an answer to what was happening or how to stop
it. We lost all four litters. There was not one survivor.
During this time we also contacted the distrubutor and even the manufacturer
of the vaccines we had used in an effort to find out what had gone wrong
and how to make sure it didn't happen again. In each instance we were told
"the disease must have already been on the premises". We changed brands,
scrubbed everything down with clorox, threw out anything that was porous
that could possibly hold a germ and painfully started over. When our puppies
would reach vaccination age, we would give the shots and then hold our
breath for 3 days waiting to see what happened. We found out the hard way
that if there was going to be a reaction, it would occur in exactly 3 days
down to almost the second of when the vaccines were given. If you caught
the puppies acting lethargic on the 3rd day, then you immediately started
them on benadryl trying to counteract the re-action. Sometimes it worked
and sometimes it didn't.
Then the company we were dealing with came up with an antidote. This was
called "Endoserum". If given at the first signs of lethargy, sometimes
the puppies pulled through. Sometimes they didn't!!!
We rode this see-saw for over 3 years before we finally got it stopped.
I don't know exactly what actually stopped the virus. But we stopped giving
shots until our puppies were at least 8 weeks old, and we left them with
their mothers as long as they wanted to nurse. This seemed to break the
cycle. We also gave up the high titers vaccines. Also gave up the 5 and
6
way combinations. Now our puppies only get parvo/distemper combinations
and after reading this article, I'll have to do some researching myself
to decide which path to take next.
We did run across two very nice exhibitors that had gone through the same
experience we had and had managed to "prove" that the vaccine had killed
their puppies. They got a court order and gained access to the files of
the manufacturer of the vaccine they had administered. They found hundreds
of thousands of letters from people like myself that had gone through this
same experience and had inquired for help. "In every instance the same
response had been given: "The disease must have already been on the
premises". These ladies sued this company for an undisclosed amount of
money. But in the process were also hit with a "gag order" where they were
not allowed to discuss the outcome. They WON!!! I was only told that their
attorney's part was up in the hundred thousand dollar range.
But what about all of those people like myself that asked for help and
was given none? --------------------We have been Parvo free now for many
years. I never want to go through anything like that again. But I do understand
that now there seems to be an epidemic of kennel cough out there that doesn't
respond to the usual treatments (there is no known cure for Bordetello)
We are advised to give the intra-nasal vaccine to all of our puppies and
dogs.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................................
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