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Sept 19, 2005
Many of the top researchers in the USA, including Ron
Schultz and Leland Carmichael (Cornell University)
believe annual vaccinations are unnecessary and very
possibly harmful. We used to run titers regulary. There
is some controversy on their accuracy (research has
shown that immunity is not just in the antibodies that
show up, but is also depending on memory cells when
faced with a challenge.
A low titer or, in the case of
one dog we had, no titer, does not necessarily mean the
dog lacks immunity.
We know our dog with zero titer had
a direct exposure to Parvo without being affected. AND
the vaccine companies have known this for at least a
decade. They told us
about memory response long before it became the topic of
general conversation.
—Kathy 00 |
If you would like to research
Canine Vaccination Protocols for yourself, check out
these websites:
Richard B. Ford, DVM, MS, Dipl ACVIM Professor of
Medicine, North Carolina State University, North
Carolina, USA
Richard_Ford@ncsu.edu
http://www.vin.com/proceedings/Proceedings.plx?CID=WSAVA2002&PID=2614
Vaccination Protocols Information (with several links to
good information)
http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/vaccine-protocols.html
www.ivis.org Do
a search here for "dog vaccination protocol". It will
bring up a wealth of information.
An example is this excerpt from
Dr Ron Schultz:
"Coronavirus Vaccines
Although approximately 50% of practices routinely use
coronavirus vaccine, most vaccine experts agree that
this vaccine is not needed. Some experts consider CCV
vaccines useless. Clinical disease rarely occurs with
CCV infection and when disease does occur it is usually
mild,
self-limiting and most commonly seen in pups less than 8
weeks of age - an age which is earlier than vaccine
would provide benefit. Based on our observations that
the preponderance of clinical cases caused by CCV occur
in young pups, any "protection" derived from vaccination
of pups or from
natural infection would, in the practical sense, last a
lifetime. Furthermore, CCV alone has not been shown to
experimentally cause significant disease in susceptible
dogs. The demonstration that CCV can
enhance the severity of disease caused by CPV-2, does
not suggest a need for CCV vaccine since dogs vaccinated
with CPV-2 vaccine only, are completely protected when
co-infected with a combination of CCV and CPV-2. [6] CCV
vaccine alone provided no protection for dogs challenged
with a combination
of CCV and CPV-2."
The complete text of this article
can be found online at:
http://www.ivis.org/advances/Infect_Dis_Carmichael/schultz/chapter_frm.asp?LA=1
Dr Schultz is the head of the Dept of Pathobiology at
the University of Wisconsin, department of Veterinary
Medicine.
http://svmweb.vetmed.wisc.edu/ |
