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Vaccinations
By Catherine O'Driscoll
The first fact:
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 keep 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 due to
potential lost booster income. I am sorry to say this but long
years of campaigning allow me to develop no other conclusion. The vets
who have read my book take it very seriously. However, most refuse to read it.
"Once immunity to a virus exists, it persists for years or life." - Dr
Ronald D Schultz, head of pathobiology 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
revaccinate". After SIX years.
DR Jean Dodds
in America has just completed a 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 bacterin, not a virus, and you can't get permanent immunity
to a bacterin. 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as 'useless' and there have been many calls for it to be withdrawn from the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 the 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:
Frick and
Brooks, in 1983, showed that dogs who were genetically susceptible to develop
atopic dermatitis ONLY contracted the condition IF they were vaccinated before
being exposed to an allergen. So - vaccines trigger skin disease.
Arthritis:
There are many,
many studies 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 were 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 behaviour, autism, epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, and
other neurological conditions (for example, CDRM, Ataxia, etc).
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 haemolytic anaemia, 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 autoantibodies 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 pre-disposed to suffer fatal
reactions to vaccines, or to develop vaccine-induced disease.
The Merck Manual (the doctor's bible, published by a vaccine
manufacturer) says that children with B and/or T cell immunodeficiencies 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
immunodeficiencies 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 immunodeficiencies. 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 him 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 homoeopathic vet called Chris Day, and
he asked me when Ollie had last been vaccinated. He told me it was a classic
vaccine reaction, falling 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
paralysed 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 scientific 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 bacterins 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 homoeopathically protected pups didn't cough once. 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 & Training Concern members
are now constantly 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.
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 are 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.
Catherine O'Driscoll