Why Vets Are Getting Away With Murder
Jun 21, 2021 20:12:08 GMT -5
Post by maybetoday on Jun 21, 2021 20:12:08 GMT -5
Why Vets Are Getting Away With Murder
dog vaccine reactions
Dana Scott
June 16, 2021
How’s that for a title? If it got your attention, that’s good because this topic needs your attention.
It used to be that dogs visited the vet pretty rarely. They only needed a couple of vaccines, they got to eat real foods and they weren’t continually loaded with:
Heartworm preventives
Flea and tick meds
Flea and tick shampoos
Dewormers
Pharmaceuticals and more
Thinking back, maybe that’s why they didn’t need to go to the vet all that often. Today, there’s a very different veterinary clinic. We now have access to better medicine, including MRIs and more technologically advanced surgery. I think it’s great that these modern, life-saving tools are available to dogs.
But not all change is good …
Why The Veterinary Profession Is Broken …
Somewhere along the way, the veterinary profession became broken. Vets today have a lot more drugs, vaccines and chemicals at their disposal. And all of these carry hefty side effects. Despite the advances in medicine, modern dogs are living shorter, sicker lives than their ancestors. And vets aren’t taking responsibility.
Arguably, the most common and harmful problem in veterinary medicine is over-vaccination. Not only do the vaccines cause a lot of damage in our dogs, but nearly every vaccine vets give our dogs is unnecessary.
Pay attention to that sentence: nearly every vaccine given to our dogs is useless – your dog gets no benefit but all of the risk. How could this happen? How can vets cause so much disease and devastation in our dogs without even knowing it?
Vets Don’t Understand Immunology or Vaccines
I paraphrase Dr Ronald Schultz, the leading veterinary immunologist, when I say that vets are inept at making vaccine decisions.
We interviewed some vets on how thorough their training was on vaccines. Here are some of the responses we got:
I was taught vaccines were safe and it was implied there had been safety studies done on them before they were used on the general public. They are not safe and there have not been any safety studies done on any of them. ~ Dr Stephen Blake
My training in vet school was not complete with regard to the harmful effects that vaccines have on the immune system. ~ Dr Jeff Feinman
Vaccination in college was skimmed over with little discussion of potential risks involved. In practice I have seen what I believe to be vaccine related problems of skin disease (allergic); inflammatory bowel disease; and epilepsy which appear to have been triggered or coincided with vaccination. ~ Dr Mark Carpenter
So vaccines are a substance that can cause severe health issues and even death. But vets admit that they really weren’t educated in their use.
More importantly, most veterinary colleges are financially aligned with the pharmaceutical companies. This means most of the curriculum is pro-vaccine with little time spent discussing the very real issue of harmful reactions and side effects.
How could this happen?
RELATED: Lifelong Immunity … Why Vets Are Pushing Back …
More Is Not Better!
Back in the 1970s, dogs were only vaccinated for one or two diseases. Today, there are vaccines for adenovirus, parainfluenza, bordetella, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, hepatitis, rabies, canine flu, coronavirus – and there are more and more every year. Nowadays, dogs and puppies are often vaccinated with seven or more viruses at the same time.
In the 1970s, all vaccines, with the exception of rabies vaccines, were tested for only a few weeks to a few months. So all the vaccine labels just said ‘‘Annual Revaccination Recommended’’ because nobody spent the time or money to figure out how long they would actually protect dogs. So vets vaccinated dogs every year, even though field observation suggested that immunity after both natural infection and vaccination was long lived.
“The patient receives no benefit and may be placed at serious risk when an unnecessary vaccine is given.” says Dr Schultz. “Few or no scientific studies have demonstrated a need for cats or dogs to be revaccinated.”
Dogs are either immune or they are not, and once immune, there is every indication that this protection lasts a lifetime. The distemper vaccine has been shown to last for 7 to 15 years. In fact, all of the core vaccines have shown this kind of duration of immunity.
RELATED: Combination Shots: Weapons Of Over-Vaccination …
Why Do Vets Continue To Vaccinate Too Much?
“Profits are what vaccine critics believe is at the root of the profession’s resistance to update its protocols” says Schultz.
“Without the lure of vaccines, clients might be less inclined to make yearly veterinary visits. Vaccines add up to 14 percent of the average practice’s income, AAHA reports, and veterinarians stand to lose big. I suspect some are ignoring my work. Tying vaccinations into the annual visit became prominent in the 1980s and a way of practicing in the 1990s. Now veterinarians don’t want to give it up.”
Even those vets who want to do the right thing are vaccinating our pets too often and with too much. They’re not prepared to make balanced vaccine decisions because the veterinary colleges rely on the vaccine manufacturers to teach their curriculum. This means you can’t rely on your vet to protect your dog from unnecessary vaccination and the damage it causes. He hasn’t been taught to know this.
But what about the veterinary associations – aren’t they looking out for your dog?
Continued at the link
dog vaccine reactions
Dana Scott
June 16, 2021
How’s that for a title? If it got your attention, that’s good because this topic needs your attention.
It used to be that dogs visited the vet pretty rarely. They only needed a couple of vaccines, they got to eat real foods and they weren’t continually loaded with:
Heartworm preventives
Flea and tick meds
Flea and tick shampoos
Dewormers
Pharmaceuticals and more
Thinking back, maybe that’s why they didn’t need to go to the vet all that often. Today, there’s a very different veterinary clinic. We now have access to better medicine, including MRIs and more technologically advanced surgery. I think it’s great that these modern, life-saving tools are available to dogs.
But not all change is good …
Why The Veterinary Profession Is Broken …
Somewhere along the way, the veterinary profession became broken. Vets today have a lot more drugs, vaccines and chemicals at their disposal. And all of these carry hefty side effects. Despite the advances in medicine, modern dogs are living shorter, sicker lives than their ancestors. And vets aren’t taking responsibility.
Arguably, the most common and harmful problem in veterinary medicine is over-vaccination. Not only do the vaccines cause a lot of damage in our dogs, but nearly every vaccine vets give our dogs is unnecessary.
Pay attention to that sentence: nearly every vaccine given to our dogs is useless – your dog gets no benefit but all of the risk. How could this happen? How can vets cause so much disease and devastation in our dogs without even knowing it?
Vets Don’t Understand Immunology or Vaccines
I paraphrase Dr Ronald Schultz, the leading veterinary immunologist, when I say that vets are inept at making vaccine decisions.
We interviewed some vets on how thorough their training was on vaccines. Here are some of the responses we got:
I was taught vaccines were safe and it was implied there had been safety studies done on them before they were used on the general public. They are not safe and there have not been any safety studies done on any of them. ~ Dr Stephen Blake
My training in vet school was not complete with regard to the harmful effects that vaccines have on the immune system. ~ Dr Jeff Feinman
Vaccination in college was skimmed over with little discussion of potential risks involved. In practice I have seen what I believe to be vaccine related problems of skin disease (allergic); inflammatory bowel disease; and epilepsy which appear to have been triggered or coincided with vaccination. ~ Dr Mark Carpenter
So vaccines are a substance that can cause severe health issues and even death. But vets admit that they really weren’t educated in their use.
More importantly, most veterinary colleges are financially aligned with the pharmaceutical companies. This means most of the curriculum is pro-vaccine with little time spent discussing the very real issue of harmful reactions and side effects.
How could this happen?
RELATED: Lifelong Immunity … Why Vets Are Pushing Back …
More Is Not Better!
Back in the 1970s, dogs were only vaccinated for one or two diseases. Today, there are vaccines for adenovirus, parainfluenza, bordetella, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, hepatitis, rabies, canine flu, coronavirus – and there are more and more every year. Nowadays, dogs and puppies are often vaccinated with seven or more viruses at the same time.
In the 1970s, all vaccines, with the exception of rabies vaccines, were tested for only a few weeks to a few months. So all the vaccine labels just said ‘‘Annual Revaccination Recommended’’ because nobody spent the time or money to figure out how long they would actually protect dogs. So vets vaccinated dogs every year, even though field observation suggested that immunity after both natural infection and vaccination was long lived.
“The patient receives no benefit and may be placed at serious risk when an unnecessary vaccine is given.” says Dr Schultz. “Few or no scientific studies have demonstrated a need for cats or dogs to be revaccinated.”
Dogs are either immune or they are not, and once immune, there is every indication that this protection lasts a lifetime. The distemper vaccine has been shown to last for 7 to 15 years. In fact, all of the core vaccines have shown this kind of duration of immunity.
RELATED: Combination Shots: Weapons Of Over-Vaccination …
Why Do Vets Continue To Vaccinate Too Much?
“Profits are what vaccine critics believe is at the root of the profession’s resistance to update its protocols” says Schultz.
“Without the lure of vaccines, clients might be less inclined to make yearly veterinary visits. Vaccines add up to 14 percent of the average practice’s income, AAHA reports, and veterinarians stand to lose big. I suspect some are ignoring my work. Tying vaccinations into the annual visit became prominent in the 1980s and a way of practicing in the 1990s. Now veterinarians don’t want to give it up.”
Even those vets who want to do the right thing are vaccinating our pets too often and with too much. They’re not prepared to make balanced vaccine decisions because the veterinary colleges rely on the vaccine manufacturers to teach their curriculum. This means you can’t rely on your vet to protect your dog from unnecessary vaccination and the damage it causes. He hasn’t been taught to know this.
But what about the veterinary associations – aren’t they looking out for your dog?
Continued at the link