RE: [NN] Is rabies partly hype?

They are doing a rabies challenge. Jean Dodds, DVM and another vet I think
his name is Schultz believe one vaccine will protect a dog for life.

At this point I am not sure what to think, the more I learn the more it
seems vaccines are hype and dangerous to boot. Unfortunately my state is
obsessed with it and my dogs and cats have to be subjected to it.

In Texas we only recently got it changed to 3 years required by law instead
of one year. A ton of vets protested the change because they use it "to get
necessary check-ups done". They don't even try to market how important a
yearly physical is just coerce people to come in. The good vets don't do
this but they are few and far between.

I have read that Pasteur recanted his ideas about vaccines on his deathbed
and that his rabies studies weren't nearly as affective as they seemed to
be. This was in Don Hamilton's Homeopathy for Dogs and Cats: Small doses
for small animals. Plenty of people think that it's a lie that he recanted
though.

Dawn

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Subject: [NN] Is rabies partly hype?

I'm thinking about the statistics for rabies in humans and wondering how it
can be so low - only 27 cases reported in humans since 1990 (in the US).
When you think about kids handling wildlife, knowing that if they report a
bite to a parent they may have to get a series of painful shots, people who
got bitten and waited too long to get the shots, just plain dumb people who
get bitten and don't know they should tell anyone - I can't fathom that only
27 people got it in the last almost 20 years.

Also, the vaccine is not 100% effective. I've read some reports that only
the 1 year shots work so the new 7 year shots may not prevent rabies as well
as people think, yet if an animal has shots the preventative shots are not
given to bite victims.

Also, if some can carry it asymptomatically for a year or more, then doesn't
that mean the immune system can fight it off, or hold it at bay? What about
the animals who are "vectors" - wouldn't they just all die off, ending
rabies forever, if it were so deadly?

It just occurred to me, something seems a little fishy there.

On the other hand, at $50 a pop, rabies vaccination is quite a money-maker
for vets.

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