PET VACCINATION
An
Institutionalised Crime
A Contentious Issue
The Science behind Vaccination
The Current State of Play for the
Animals
The Barriers to Knowledge
The Science of Vaccine Damage
A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced
Diseases
Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory
Response
A Theory on Inflammation
The Final Insult
Pet owners
should be aware that vaccines
compromise the health of their
cherished pets, causing serious
side-effects including allergies,
arthritis, behavioural problems,
cancer, paralysis and, at
worst, death.
My partner Rob and I attended a
Crosby, Stills and Nash concert
recently. It was a wonderful, rare
treat, and fulfilled a dream I've
nurtured for many years. I was
particularly moved by Dave Crosby as
he sang, "Speak, speak out against
the madness". We have to do that,
don't we? We have to speak out when
our loved ones are being harmed. If
we don't, then it seems to me that
we are just part of the problem.
Later in the same song Crosby sang,
"It appears to be a long time before
the dawn". And this is true, too: it
seems to be taking so long for the
truth to prevail and be acted upon
by the veterinary community—for the
profession is committing a crime by
vaccinating animals year after year
until they drop.
I've been saying this since 1994,
when I formed a group called Canine
Health Concern (CHC). The aim of
this group is to educate pet owners
in an attempt to stop the carnage
that is being visited upon the
animals by the corporations and
professionals who profess to be
helping them. My mission is quite
personal, since the science points
towards the horrifying fact that
vaccines have killed three of my
young, beautiful canine friends. The
first shock came when Oliver
suffered from rear-end paralysis and
died when he was only four years
old. Prudence died a slow and
agonising death from leukaemia when
she was only six; and Samson had a
reaction to his puppy shot and
first-year booster, and died of
cancer at the tender age of five.
All of these conditions are linked
scientifically to vaccination. My
other dogs were also unable to
escape the damage that vaccines can
cause. Chappie had thyroid disease,
Sophie had arthritis and Guinnevere
suffered from allergies. Again,
these conditions can be
scientifically shown to relate to
vaccine damage.
I believe that vets of the
future, and our children's doctors,
will look back upon the vaccination
era with horror and shame. The
horror will come from the knowledge
that so much pain and misery was
caused by healing professionals
acting in ignorance, and the shame
will come from the wilfulness of
that ignorance.
A Contentious Issue
If you will forgive me for making
one more personal comment before I
move on to substantiate my
outrageous claims, I would like to
address the issue of
"contentiousness", which is a label
I've grown used to but which I do
not intend preventing me from
speaking the truth.
You may have noticed that I've
been using some pretty strong
language in the opening paragraphs
of this article. This is deliberate.
It's deliberate because doctors,
veterinarians and scientists have
been numbed or socially moulded into
language and behaviour that follow
strict codes of professional
etiquette. The pressure is upon them
to be polite and refrain from
offending one another with ideas,
which means that the truth is
continually stifled. By speaking
directly, it is my intention to
shock that numbness out of the
system which perpetuates such
catastrophic error. Besides which,
the truth needs to be heard.
I believe that my dogs died
prematurely, and millions of other
dogs, cats and horses have died and
are continuing to die because of the
false ideas or beliefs held by our
medical and veterinary professions.
This faulty structure of belief is
built, supported and held rigidly in
place by a system which is killing
the life on this planet. This system
ensures that professionals are
taught in colleges which rely upon
big business for funding, which
means that their education is
faulty. Research organisations also
rely upon big business for funding,
which means that we can rarely trust
the research. The media rely upon
big business for funding, so we can
scarcely believe what we read. And
professionals in practice rely upon
big business to stay in business.
More worrying, perhaps, is the fact
that our governments seem, from my
direct experience, to put big
business interests before life.
We are, in fact, looking at a
juggernaut of death which is hurling
itself at top speed towards the
grave. We will not stop it by
whimpering quietly in its face. We
must educate ourselves with the
truth and stand firmly in line
together and shout, "No!" Failing
this, the lives of your children,
and your animals, depend at least
upon your taking the time to
understand the issues.
The Science behind Vaccination
Vaccination was born in England in
1798, when Edward Jenner observed
that people who worked close to cows
didn't get smallpox. He injected
cowpox into humans and deduced that
those humans were prevented from
getting smallpox. You can imagine
that, during the days of poor
nutrition and appalling sanitation,
the concept of a miracle cure for
infectious disease would have been
seized upon. And it was.
During the 1800s, Louis Pasteur
developed the technology still
further by attenuating vaccines,
i.e., rendering them less harmful.
It naturally took little time for
vaccines to become big business, and
over 200 years on there are vaccines
against a wide array of bacterial
and viral diseases in humans and
many species of animal. Ignoring the
fact that epidemics go in cycles and
die out naturally (like the plague,
for example), and ignoring the fact
that our understanding of hygiene
and nutrition might have something
to do with the reduction in
epidemics, vaccines have been given
the largest slice of the credit.
Conventional medicine works on
the risk/benefit ratio. All
conventional Pharmaceuticals come
with the risk of unwanted
side-effects—but if they can be
shown to help more people than they
harm, then their dangers are
ignored. It is no wonder, then, that
the multibillion-dollar
international vaccine industry has
sponsored absolutely no long-term
studies—in humans or animals— to
ascertain what the risks of vaccines
might actually be. And when
individual scientists take the bull
by the horns and conduct their own
under-funded research, they are
routinely discredited, usually by
"experts" who have shares in, or
lucrative consultancy income from,
the vaccine industry. Even
government-funded research gives
those with vested interests full
voice.
I guess if you can inject
substances that make humans and
animals sick, then you can also make
a lot of money from supplying drugs
that promise to alleviate these
vaccine-induced illnesses.
Politically and economically, it
also makes sense to keep industry
thriving and people in employment,
and it also helps if big businesses
enrich political campaign funds.
The Current State of Play for the
Animals
This is what I have seen happening,
time after time, over the last 12
years. A "responsible" pet owner
takes their dog (or cat or horse) to
the vet for their annual booster.
Shortly after, the animal develops
epilepsy, or arthritis, or
behavioural problems, or thyroid
disease, or diabetes, or skin
complaints, or allergies, or heart
failure, or liver or kidney damage,
or paralysis of the rear end, or
colitis, or even cancer, leukaemia
or another life-threatening
immune-mediated disease shortly
after the shot.
Usually neither the pet owner nor
the vet suspects a link. If the
owner has been particularly close to
their animal friend, however, they
will start to ask questions. They
may ask their vet if he or she
suspects a link between the booster
and the subsequent illness. The
answer will invariably be "No". Very
occasionally the owner won't let it
rest there. They'll start to seek an
answer to the question, "Why did my
friend die?" They will then discover
that a vaccine can indeed cause any
of these illnesses and that—much to
their horror—there was actually no
need to give their friend an annual
booster.
There will, however, be no
recourse. They cannot bring their
dead animal back to life. If they go
through the courts, the system is
such that very little impact will be
made for their own case or for the
health of any other animals. The
best that can happen is that
individuals, one at a time, slowly
change their vaccine practices.
The Barriers to Knowledge
It's not easy to get your message
across when you're engaged in the
vaccine debate. The real problem
lies in the fact that the science is
somewhat complex and, bizarrely, the
logic of vaccination is somewhat
faulty. It just doesn't make
sense—so it's very much easier to
hand the decision-making process
over to an expert in a white coat.
Unfortunately, this leaves many
people turning away from the effort
involved in looking at the issues
surrounding vaccination, relying
instead upon someone else's
judgement while at the same time
suffering incredible anguish. I have
had letters, emails and phone calls
from so many people who worried
about revaccinating their animals
but who did it anyway because a vet
told them to, and who now need grief
counselling.
If nothing else, the 12 years I
have spent running Canine Health
Concern have shown me that this is
the next necessary stage in human
evolution: to take responsibility
for our lives and the lives of those
in our care. The system is so
complex, and so swayed by the
dominating effect of economics, that
we have no choice now.
You cannot afford to subject your
animals, or your children, to
medical interventions that you do
not understand. The belief system
upon which the conventional medical
model is founded is so faulty, so
corrupt and so dangerous that you
simply cannot afford to follow
blindly.
Now I appreciate that many
doctors and vets reading these words
might be enraged by what I have
said. They spent so much time,
energy and money in obtaining their
qualifications, after all. They
actually do know more than most of
us, and their whole lives are
dedicated to healing the sick.
Indeed, there is much in the
conventional medical model that is
good.
But doctors and vets will also
resonate with the truth of what I am
saying, however uncomfortable or
angry it makes them feel. Recent
studies show that three times more
people in the UK die each year from
drugs their doctors prescribe than
they do in road traffic accidents.
Doctors and vets do not have time to
study all the side-effects of every
drug: much of their understanding
about drugs comes from
pharmaceutical company
representatives. They also have to
concern themselves with income from
their practice. And no one is able
to know everything.
Drugs like Vioxx and Co-Proxamol
in the human medical field, and
Rimadyl and Deramaxx in the canine
field, have now been shown to have
death as a potential side-effect—but
only after they passed all the
safety and licensing requirements
and after tens of thousands died. In
America, where the FDA took action,
Rimadyl comes with data sheets to
warn dog owners of potential death
if their pet is given the drug, and
the makers of Deramaxx have had
their knuckles rapped. And yet newly
qualified student vets, who come on
our Foundation in Canine Healthcare
course, have been told in college
about only the benefits of these
drugs.
Patients and clients, on the
other hand, do have time and often
the motivation to research their own
illnesses or the illnesses of their
children and animals and the
medications that are prescribed. All
of us are far better educated than
we used to be, even if we don't
possess the same qualifications as
the healthcare professionals. We
have minds, and we know how to use
them. And because the buck stops
with us, we have a duty of care to
ourselves and our loved ones. All
too frequently, however, animal
guardians are moved to research
after their friends have died.
My aim, and the aim of Canine
Health Concern, is to provide
information before tragedy occurs.
Sadly, I cannot make you read this
information: only your love can do
this. I can say, though, that the
animals have been concerned with
human evolution since the beginning
of time, and they will continue to
sacrifice themselves upon the altar
of science until we humans get it.
Truly, if only we knew the full
extent of the love being poured out
by the animals towards humanity, we
would bow down in gratitude to them,
and no effort would be too much for
their sakes.
The Science of Vaccine Damage
A team at Purdue University School
of Veterinary Medicine conducted
several studies 1,2 to
determine if vaccines can cause
changes in the immune system of dogs
that might lead to life-threatening
immune-mediated diseases. They
obviously conducted this research
because concern already existed. It
was sponsored by the Haywood
Foundation which itself was looking
for evidence that such changes in
the human immune system might also
be vaccine induced. It found the
evidence.
The vaccinated, but not
the non-vaccinated, dogs in the
Purdue studies developed
autoantibodies to many of their own
biochemicals, including fibronectin,
laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C,
cardiolipin and collagen.
This means that the vaccinated
dogs —but not the non-vaccinated
dogs—were attacking their own
fibronectin, which is involved in
tissue repair, cell multiplication
and growth, and differentiation
between tissues and organs in a
living organism.
The vaccinated Purdue dogs also
developed autoantibodies to laminin,
which is involved in many cellular
activities including the adhesion,
spreading, differentiation,
proliferation and movement of
cells. Vaccines thus appear to be
capable of removing the natural
intelligence of cells.
Autoantibodies to cardiolipin are
frequently found in patients with
the serious disease systemic lupus
erythematosus and also in
individuals with other autoimmune
diseases. The presence of elevated
anti-cardiolipin antibodies is
significantly associated with clots
within the heart or blood vessels,
in poor blood clotting, haemorrhage,
bleeding into the skin, foetal loss
and neurological conditions.
The Purdue studies also found
that vaccinated dogs were developing
autoantibodies to their own
collagen. About one quarter of all
the protein in the body is collagen.
Collagen provides structure to our
bodies, protecting and supporting
the softer tissues and connecting
them with the skeleton. It is no
wonder that Canine Health Concern's
1997 study of 4,000 dogs showed a
high number of dogs developing
mobility problems shortly after they
were vaccinated (noted in my 1997
book, What Vets Don't Tell You About
Vaccines).
Perhaps most worryingly, the
Purdue studies found that the
vaccinated dogs had developed
autoantibodies to their own DNA. Did
the alarm bells sound? Did the
scientific community call a halt to
the vaccination program? No.
Instead, they stuck their fingers in
the air, saying more research is
needed to ascertain whether vaccines
can cause genetic damage. Meanwhile,
the study dogs were found good
homes, but no long-term follow-up
has been conducted.
At around the same time, the
American Veterinary Medical
Association (AVMA)
Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma
Task Force initiated several studies
to find out why 160,000 cats each
year in the USA develop terminal
cancer at their
vaccine injection sites.3 The
fact that cats can get
vaccine-induced cancer has been
acknowledged by veterinary bodies
around the world, and even the
British Government acknowledged it
through its Working Group charged
with the task of looking into canine
and feline vaccines4 following
pressure from Canine Health Concern.
What do you imagine was the advice
of the AVMA Task Force, veterinary
bodies and governments? "Carry on
vaccinating until we find out why
vaccines are killing cats, and which
cats are most likely to die."
In America, in an attempt to
mitigate the problem, they're
vaccinating cats in the tail or leg
so they can amputate when cancer
appears. Great advice if it's not
your cat amongst the hundreds of
thousands on the "oops" list.
But other species are okay—right?
Wrong. In August 2003, the Journal
of Veterinary Medicine carried an
Italian study which showed that dogs
also develop vaccine-induced cancers
at their injection sites.5 We
already know that vaccine-site
cancer is a possible sequel to human
vaccines, too, since the Salk polio
vaccine was said to carry a monkey
retrovirus (from cultivating the
vaccine on monkey organs) that
produces inheritable cancer. The
monkey retrovirus SV40 keeps turning
up in human cancer sites.
It is also widely acknowledged
that vaccines can cause a
fast-acting, usually fatal, disease
called autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
(AIHA). Without treatment, and
frequently with treatment,
individuals can die in agony within
a matter of days. Merck, itself a
multinational vaccine manufacturer,
states in The Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and Therapy that
autoimmune haemolytic anaemia may be
caused by modified live-virus
vaccines, as do Tizard's
Veterinary Immunology (4th
edition) and the Journal of
Veterinary Internal Medicine.6
The British Government's Working
Group, despite being staffed by
vaccine-industry consultants who say
they are independent, also
acknowledged this fact. However, no
one warns the pet owners before
their animals are subjected to an
unnecessary booster, and very few
owners are told why after their pets
die of AIHA.
A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced
Diseases
We also found some worrying
correlations between vaccine events
and the onset of arthritis in our
1997 survey. Our concerns were
compounded by research in the human
field.
The New England Journal of
Medicine, for example, reported
that it is possible to isolate the
rubella virus from affected joints
in children vaccinated against
rubella. It also told of the
isolation of viruses from the
peripheral blood of women with
prolonged arthritis following
vaccination.7
Then, in 2000, CHC's findings
were confirmed by research which
showed that polyarthritis and other
diseases like amyloidosis, which
affects organs in dogs, were linked
to the combined vaccine given to
dogs.8
There is a huge body of research,
despite the paucity of funding from
the vaccine industry, to confirm
that vaccines can cause a wide range
of brain and central nervous system
damage. Merck itself states in its
Manual that vaccines (i.e.,
its own products) can cause
encephalitis: brain
inflammation/damage. In some cases,
encephalitis involves lesions in the
brain and throughout the central
nervous system. Merck states that
"examples are the encephalitides
following measles, chickenpox,
rubella, smallpox vaccination,
vaccinia, and many other less well
defined viral infections".
When the dog owners who took part
in the CHC survey reported that
their dogs developed short attention
spans, 73.1% of the dogs did so
within three months of a vaccine
event. The same percentage of dogs
was diagnosed with epilepsy within
three months of a shot (but usually
within days). We also found that
72.5% of dogs that were considered
by their owners to be nervous and of
a worrying disposition, first
exhibited these traits within the
three-month post-vaccination period.
I would like to add for the sake
of Oliver, my friend who suffered
from paralysed rear legs and death
shortly after a vaccine shot, that
"paresis" is listed in Merck's
Manual as a symptom of
encephalitis. This is defined as
muscular weakness of a neural
(brain) origin which involves
partial or incomplete paralysis,
resulting from lesions at any level
of the descending pathway from the
brain. Hind limb paralysis is one of
the potential consequences.
Encephalitis, incidentally, is a
disease that can manifest across the
scale from mild to severe and can
also cause sudden death.
Organ failure must also be
suspected when it occurs shortly
after a vaccine event. Dr Larry
Glickman, who spearheaded the Purdue
research into post-vaccination
biochemical changes in dogs, wrote
in a letter to Cavalier Spaniel
breeder Bet Hargreaves:
"Our ongoing studies of dogs show
that following routine vaccination,
there is a significant rise in the
level of antibodies dogs produce
against their own tissues. Some of
these antibodies have been shown to
target the thyroid gland, connective
tissue such as that found in the
valves of the heart, red blood
cells, DNA, etc. I do believe that
the heart conditions in Cavalier
King Charles Spaniels could be the
end result of repeated immunisations
by vaccines containing tissue
culture contaminants that cause a
progressive immune response
directed at connective tissue in the
heart valves. The clinical
manifestations would be more
pronounced in dogs that have a
genetic predisposition [although]
the findings should be generally
applicable to all dogs regardless of
their breed."
I must mention here that Dr
Glickman believes that vaccines are
a necessary evil, but that safer
vaccines need to be developed.
Meanwhile, please join the queue
to place your dog, cat, horse and
child on the Russian roulette wheel
because a scientist says you should.
Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory
Response
The word "allergy" is synonymous
with "sensitivity" and
"inflammation". It should, by
rights, also be synonymous with the
word "vaccination". This is what
vaccines do: they sensitise (render
allergic) an individual in the
process of forcing them to develop
antibodies to fight a disease
threat. In other words, as is
acknowledged and accepted, as part
of the vaccine process the body will
respond with inflammation. This may
be apparently temporary or it may be
longstanding.
Holistic doctors and
veterinarians have known this for at
least 100 years. They talk about a
wide range of inflammatory or
"-itis" diseases which arise shortly
after a vaccine event. Vaccines, in
fact, plunge many individuals into
an allergic state. Again, this is a
disorder that ranges from mild all
the way through to the suddenly
fatal. Anaphylactic shock is the
culmination: it's where an
individual has a massive allergic
reaction to a vaccine and will die
within minutes if adrenaline or its
equivalent is not administered.
There are some individuals who
are genetically not well placed to
withstand the vaccine challenge.
These are the people (and animals
are "people", too) who have
inherited faulty B and T cell
function. B and T cells are
components within the immune system
which identify foreign invaders and
destroy them, and hold the invader
in memory so that they cannot cause
future harm. However, where
inflammatory responses are
concerned, the immune system
overreacts and causes unwanted
effects such as allergies and other
inflammatory conditions.
Merck warns in its Manual
that patients with, or from families
with, B and/or T cell
immunodeficiencies should not
receive live-virus vaccines due to
the risk of severe or fatal
infection. Elsewhere, it lists
features of B and T cell
immunodeficiencies as food
allergies, inhalant allergies,
eczema, dermatitis, neurological
deterioration and heart disease. To
translate, people with these
conditions can die if they receive
live-virus vaccines. Their immune
systems are simply not competent
enough to guarantee a healthy
reaction to the viral assault from
modified live-virus vaccines.
Modified live-virus (MLV)
vaccines replicate in the patient
until an immune response is
provoked. If a defence isn't
stimulated, then the vaccine
continues to replicate until it
gives the patient the very disease
it was intending to prevent.
Alternatively, a deranged immune
response will lead to inflammatory
conditions such as arthritis,
pancreatitis, colitis, encephalitis
and any number of autoimmune
diseases such as cancer and
leukaemia, where the body attacks
its own cells.
A new theory, stumbled upon by
Open University student Gary Smith,
explains what holistic practitioners
have been saying for a very long
time. Here is what a few of the
holistic vets have said in relation
to their patients:
Dr Jean Dodds: "Many
veterinarians trace the present
problems with allergic and
immunologic diseases to the
introduction of MLV vaccines..."9
Christina Chambreau, DVM:
"Routine vaccinations are probably
the worst thing that we do for our
animals. They cause all types of
illnesses, but not directly to where
we would relate them definitely to
be caused by the vaccine."10
Martin Goldstein, DVM: "I think
that vaccines...are leading killers
of dogs and cats in America today.""
Dr Charles E. Loops, DVM:
"Homoeopathic veterinarians and
other holistic practitioners have
maintained for some time that
vaccinations do more harm than they
provide benefits."12
Mike Kohn, DVM: "In response to
this [vaccine] violation, there have
been increased autoimmune diseases
(allergies being one component),
epilepsy, neoplasia [tumours], as
well as behavioural problems in
small animals."13
A Theory on Inflammation
Gary Smith explains what observant
healthcare practitioners have been
saying for a very long time, but
perhaps they've not understood why
their observations led them to say
it. His theory, incidentally, is
causing a huge stir within the inner
scientific sanctum. Some believe
that his theory could lead to a cure
for many diseases including cancer.
For me, it explains why the vaccine
process is inherently questionable.
Gary was learning about
inflammation as part of his studies
when he struck upon a theory so
extraordinary that it could have
implications for the treatment of
almost every inflammatory
disease—including Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis
and even HIV and AIDS.
Gary's theory questions the
received wisdom that when a person
gets ill, the inflammation that
occurs around the infected area
helps it to heal. He claims that, in
reality, inflammation prevents
the body from recognising a foreign
substance and therefore serves as a
hiding place for invaders. The
inflammation occurs when at-risk
cells produce receptors called All
(known as angiotensin II type I
receptors). He says that while At1
has a balancing receptor, At2, which
is supposed to switch off the
inflammation, in most diseases this
does not happen.
"Cancer has been described as the
wound that never heals," he says.
"All successful cancers are
surrounded by inflammation. Commonly
this is thought to be the body's
reaction to try to fight the cancer,
but this is not the case.
"The inflammation is not the body
trying to fight the infection. It is
actually the virus or bacteria
deliberately causing inflammation in
order to hide from the immune system
[author's emphasis]."14
If Gary is right, then the
inflammatory process so commonly
stimulated by vaccines is not, as
hitherto assumed, a necessarily
acceptable sign. Instead, it could
be a sign that the viral or
bacterial component, or the adjuvant
(which, containing foreign protein,
is seen as an invader by the immune
system), in the vaccine is winning
by stealth.
If Gary is correct in believing
that the inflammatory response is
not protective but a sign that
invasion is taking place under cover
of darkness, vaccines are certainly
not the friends we thought they
were. They are undercover assassins
working on behalf of the enemy, and
vets and medical doctors are
unwittingly acting as collaborators.
Worse, we animal guardians and
parents are actually paying doctors
and vets to unwittingly betray our
loved ones.
Potentially, vaccines are the
stealth bomb of the medical world.
They are used to catapult invaders
inside the castle walls where they
can wreak havoc, with none of us any
the wiser. So rather than
experiencing frank viral diseases
such as the 'flu, measles, mumps and
rubella (and, in the case of dogs,
parvovirus and distemper), we are
allowing the viruses to win
anyway—but with cancer, leukaemia
and other inflammatory or autoimmune
(self-attacking) diseases taking
their place.
The Final Insult
All 27 veterinary schools in North
America have changed their protocols
for vaccinating dogs and cats along
the following lines;15 however, vets
in practice are reluctant to listen
to these changed protocols and
official veterinary bodies in the UK
and other countries are ignoring the
following facts.
Dogs' and cats' immune systems
mature fully at six months. If £
modified live-virus vaccine is giver
after six months of age, it produces
immunity, which is good for the
life of the pet. If another MLV
vaccine is given a year later, the
antibodies from the first vaccine
neutralise the antigens of the
second vaccine and there is little
or no effect. The litre is no
"boosted", nor are more memory cells
induced.
Not only are annual boosters
unnecessary, but they subject the
pet to potential risks such as
allergic reactions and
immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia.
In plain language, veterinary
schools in America, plus the
American Veterinary Medical
Association, have looked at studies
to show how long vaccines last and
they have concluded and announced
that annual vaccination is
unnecessary.16-19
Further, they have acknowledged
that vaccines are not without harm.
Dr Ron Schultz, head of pathobiology
at Wisconsin University and a
leading light in this field, has
been saying this politely to his
veterinary colleagues since the
1980s. I've been saying it for the
past 12 years. But change is so long
in coming and, in the meantime,
hundreds of thousands of animals are
dying every year— unnecessarily.
The good news is that thousands
of animal lovers (but not enough)
have heard what we've been saying.
Canine Health Concern members around
the world use real food as Nature's
supreme disease preventative,
eschewing processed pet food, and
minimise the vaccine risk. Some of
us, myself included, have chosen not
to vaccinate our pets at all. Our
reward is healthy and long-lived
dogs.
It has taken but one paragraph to
tell you the good and simple news.
The gratitude I feel each day, when
I embrace my healthy dogs, stretches
from the centre of the Earth to the
Universe and beyond
About the Author:
Catherine O'Driscoll runs Canine
Health Concern which campaigns and
also delivers an educational
program, the Foundation in Canine
Healthcare. She is author of Shock
to the System (2005; see review this
issue), the best-selling book What
Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines
(1997, 1998), and Who Killed the
Darling Buds of May? (1997; reviewed
in NEXUS 4/04). She lives in
Scotland with her partner, Rob
Ellis, and three Golden Retrievers,
named Edward, Daniel and Gwinnie,
and she lectures on canine health
around the world.
For more information, contact
Catherine O'Driscoll at Canine
Health Concern, PO Box 7533, Perth
PH2 1AD, Scotland, UK, email
catherine@carsegray.co.uk ,
website
http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk.
Shock to the System is available in
the UK from CHC, and worldwide from
Dogwise at
http://www.dogwise.com.
Endnotes
1. "Effects of Vaccination on the
Endocrine and Immune Systems of
Dogs, Phase II", Purdue University,
November 1,1999, at
http://www.homestead.com/vonhapsburg/haywardstudyonvaccines.html.
2. See
www.vet.purdue.edu/epi/gdhstudy.htm.
3. See
http://www.avma.org/vafstf/default.asp.
4. Veterinary Products Committee
(VPC) Working Group on Feline and
Canine Vaccination, DEFRA, May 2001.
5. JVM Series A 50(6):286-291,
August 2003.
6. Duval, D. and Giger,U. (1996).
"Vaccine-Associated Immune-Mediated
Hemolytic Anemia in the Dog",
Journal of Veterinary Internal
Medicine 10:290-295.
7. New England Journal of
Medicine, vol.313,1985. See also
Clin Exp Rheumatol 20(6):767-71,
Nov-Dec 2002.
8. Am Coll Vet Intern Med
14:381,2000.
9. Dodds, Jean W.,DVM, "Immune
System and Disease Resistance", at
http://www.critterchat.net/immune.htm.
10. Wolf Clan magazine, April/May
1995.
11. Goldstein, Martin, The Nature
of Animal Healing, Borzoi/Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc., 1999.
12. Wolf Clan magazine, op. cit.
13. ibid.
14. Journal of Inflammation
1:3,2004, at
http://www.journal-inflammation.com
content/1/1/3.
15. Klingborg, D.J., Hustead,
D.R. and Curry-Galvin, E. et al.,
"AVMA Council on Biologic and
Therapeutic Agents' report on cat
and dog vaccines", Journal of the
American Veterinary Medical
Association 221(10):1401-1407,
November 15,2002,
http://www.avma.org/policies/vaccination.htm.
16. ibid.
17. Schultz, R.D., "Current and
future canine and feline vaccination
programs", Vet Med 93:233-254,1998.
18. Schultz, R.D., Ford, R.B.,
Olsen, J. and Scott, P., "Titer
testing and vaccination: a new look
at traditional practices", Vet Med
97:1-13, 2002 (insert).
19. Twark, L. and Dodds, W.J.,
"Clinical application of serum
parvovirus and distemper virus
antibody liters for determining
revaccination strategies in healthy
dogs", J Am Vet Med Assoc
217:1021-1024,2000.