Animal Exemption Page
VACCINATING BIRDS AND OTHER ANIMALS:
• http://www.holisticbird.org/health/vaccinations.htm


• Homeopathic vaccine alternatives    http://www.doglogic.com/vaccineinfo.htm#news

Mitchell Fleisher, MD, in a recent letter to Yoga Journal, would seem to support the same perspective: "The vast majority of the professional classical homeopathic community does not advise the use of homeopathic or allopathic vaccines in the long-term prevention of communicable diseases. Rather professional homeopaths would prescribe a single remedy, based upon the totality of the individual's symptoms... that is intended to strengthen the immune system and assist the defense mechanism in overcoming disease."

The letter goes on to point out that there is a great deal of evidence for homeopathy's ability to handle viral epidemics. During the 19th century, homeopathy enjoyed a surge of popularity when it was found to be extremely effective in dealing with the epidemic diseases that spread throuout the country. In fact, during a cholera epidemic in Cincinnati in 1849, only 3 percent of homeopathic patients died, compared to 48-60% of the conventionally treated patients.

Animals/DOGS (and humans)
Science of Vaccine Damage by Catherine O'Driscoll


Adverse effects of vaccines
A website devoted to the medical history of Rajah, a dog who suffered vaccine injury.
http://www.rajah2004.com/index.htm

INFORMATIONAL AND ADVOCACY SITES
ADVERSE REACTIONS INFORMATION
http://www.rajah2004.com/links.htm



Cancers - Tumors - Fibrosarcomas
affect both cats and dogs.
Source: http://www.presspublications.com/pages/readeremails.asp
I'd like to address the inaccuracy under the "Cancer" section -- "Tumors have been found at the site of vaccine injections in cats, though not dogs, according to an article published in the March/April issue of The Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association." Below is an abstract published in the August 2003 Journal of Veterinary Medicine on the Vascellari study (full text attached) which documented fibrosarcomas at presumed vaccine injection sites (rabies) in dogs. My own Labrador Retriever, Meadow (click on this link for his story and photo www.dogsadversereactions.com), developed a malignant mast cell tumor directly on the site of his fall 2003 rabies vaccination -- he was 6 at the time. He is now one of the "poster" dogs for The Rabies Challenge Fund, which was founded by Dr. W. Jeans and me to raise funds to sponsor concurrent 5 & 7 year duration of immunity studies on the rabies vaccine, finance a study of the rabies vaccine adjuvants to improve safety and to set up a rabies vaccine adverse reporting system.
Kris L. Christine
Co-Founder, Co-Trustee
The Rabies Challenge Fund
www.zbirdbrain.com

Also see:
Is Your Pet Dying From Over-Vaccination Due to Vet Economics?
In Side bar: http://www.treshanley.com/cic/vaccines.html

A portion of the page linked above is here, Archive: Is Your Pet Dying From Over-Vaccination Due to Vet Economics?


Animal Food
For an idea as to just how unhealthy pet food is -- go to www.deltarescue.org

Index of DeltaRescue Pet Food articles

Pet Food Ingredients Revealed!
Part 8 - Worst pet food ingredients http://www.newstarget.com/Report_pet_food_ingredients_8.html

Pet Food Ingredients Revealed! [Eight part report] http://www.newstarget.com/Report_pet_food_ingredients_0.html


The following list is thanks to Jock Doubleday
ANIMAL VACCINES ARTICLES


• Vaccination in Animals © International Vaccination Newsletter
  www.healthy.net/library/articles/ivn/animals.htm



• Pets & Vaccines - extensive index
  home.san.rr.com/via/PETS/pets.htm
• Vaccination in Animals © International Vaccination Newsletter
  www.healthy.net/library/articles/ivn/animals.htm


• www.ahvma.org/
• http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Animals/horses.htm
• Vaccinosis
  Dr. Richard Pitcairn Discusses Chronic Disease Caused By Vaccines
  http://cyberpet.com/cyberdog/articles/health/vaccin.htm
• http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/
• http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/petvacc.htm

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ANIMAL VACCINES BOOKS
• Pat McKay's Printed Books
  http://www.creationsgarden.com/products_basset.asp?CategoryID=76


• http://vaccineinfo.net/immunization/animal/index.shtm

ANIMAL VACCINES LINKS (35)


• http://home.san.rr.com/via/PETS/pets.htm

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HOLISTIC ANIMAL ORGS


• American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association [homeopathy]
  http://www.theAVH.org
• American Veterinary Chiropractic Association
  http://www.AnimalChiropractic.org
• American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture
  http://AAVA.org
• International Veterinary Acupuncture Society
  http://www.ivas.org/
• Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association
  http://VBMA.org
• American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association
  http://www.ahvma.org/
Petitions and other animal activism
***Sign the petition***
^ Texas - Exempt Sick & Senior Pets from Rabies Shots http://www.petitiononline.com/tdsh2007/petition.html

^ State Law Reform to grant a medical exemption for sick and senior pets.
Problems with Animal Control - aimees-law.blogspot.com

^ The Pet Wellness Update - News - Science
www.pet-wellness-update.com/

^ RABIES CHALLENGE FUND Organization - First year Goal has been met

New York Legislation


Vaccine Dangers
From: David Ayoub
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:21 PM

It is sad when the veterinarians and dog owners are warned about vaccine dangers yet we struggle to get AMA officials look at the mountains of evidence that vaccines are injuring our children. From an article by Dr. Martin Goldstein in a recent issue of Animal Wellness I picked up this weekend at Barnes and Noble. page 19:

Limit Vaccines

By now, most animal guardians are aware of the risks of over-vaccination. Even in younger animals, too many vaccines can cause a wide number of side effects, ranging from fever and stiffness to injection site sarcomas, autoimmune problems, allergies, dermatitis, thyroid problems, and even kidney and liver disease.

The irony is that most vaccines protect against illness for three years, perhaps even longer, which makes annual boosters completely unnecessary. Rather than scheduling a full set of vaccinations every year, ask your vet if he/she can do a titer test instead. This simple. inexpensive, blood antibody test will tell you if your animal can get by without being re-vaccinated.

This is the first I heard about injection-site sarcomas but a search of the internet yields numerous such reports in vet medicine. This citation gives an intriguing hypothesis of the etiology:
Postvaccinal sarcomas in the cat: epidemiology and electron probe microanalytical identification of aluminum.
Hendrick M.J. — Goldschmidt M.H. — Shofer F.S. — Wang Y.Y. — Somlyo A.P.
From: Cancer Res (1992 Oct 1) 52(19):5391-4
An increase in fibrosarcomas in a biopsy population of cats in the Pennsylvania area appears to be related to the increased vaccination of cats following enactment of a mandatory rabies vaccination law.
The majority of fibrosarcomas arose in sites routinely used by veterinarians for vaccination, and 42 of 198 tumors were surrounded by lymphocytes and macrophages containing foreign material identical to that previously described in postvaccinal inflammatory injection site reactions. Some of the vaccines used have aluminum-based adjuvants, and macrophages surrounding three tumors contained aluminum oxide identified by electron probe microanalysis and imaged by energy-filtered electron microscopy. Persistence of inflammatory and immunological reactions associated with aluminum may predispose the cat to a derangement of its fibrous connective tissue repair response, leading to neoplasia.

I wonder if this has been reported in children?? Hepatitis B vaccine for example contains aluminum and is injected into the thigh in infants. In another interesting note:

J Pediatr Surg. 1992 Feb;27(2):241-4
A prospective study of nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas in the pediatric age group.
Dillon P, Maurer H, Jenkins J, Krummel T, Parham D, Webber B, Salzberg A.
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond.

"Sixty-five percent of all tumors presented on the extremities (44% lower extremity, 21% upper extremity)"

I don't know about you, but I am thinking about taking my first born child to a local veterinarian. I think they have it figured out!

P.S. for a comprehensive source of pets and vaccines see: http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/

David Ayoub
The Prairie Collaborative for Immunization Safety
1248 South Grand Ave West, #5
Springfield, Illinois 62704
(217) 726-0814
(217) 691-3298
Raypoke@mac.com

Greetings again!

The world's 2 leading authorities on veterinary vaccines -- Dr. W. Jean Dodds of Hemopet and Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin's School of Veterinary Medicine -- have contacted New York's legislators urging them to VOTE NO on Senate Bill S02164 and Assembly Bill A04253 (see e-mails below sent with permission) which would require boarding kennels and groomers to obtain proof of vaccination within the previous year (annual vaccination) with vaccines which have been scientifically proven durations of immunity of more than 7 years to provide services to New York's cats and dogs. To require pet owners (consumers) to pay for redundant vaccinations from which their animals derive no benefit runs contrary to consumer protection laws. These bills appear to promote veterinary medical malpractice by putting veterinarians in the untenable position of having to give animals drug overdoses (vaccines are biologic drugs) in order for their owners to be able to board or groom them.
Passage of unresearched, non-scientifically supported legislation like this will have a profound impact on the health of companion animals and their owner's finances. Please do not allow these bills to pass through inaction. Your pets need you to fight this for them, and these legislators need more than a whimper from pet owners, they need a resounding roar to vote AGAINST these bills (http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi insert S02164 in the box at the top after "Bill No.", click "2006" and check the "text" box to read the text of the bill). To contact the appropriate New York legislators, even if you're not a New York resident, copy and paste the e-mail addresses below.
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Regards,

Kris L. Christine
Co-Trustee, Co-Founder -- The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust

In light of current scientific research, Wyoming’s rabies rule requiring mandatory euthanasia for cats and dogs deemed “unvaccinated” is unjustified. While I recognize that you have a mandate to protect public health, your new rule will needlessly take the lives of countless pets which are actually immune to rabies despite being overdue for or medically exempt from rabies boosters.

Under the new rule, it appears companion animals overdue for a rabies booster by a week or month (according to vaccine manufacturer’s recommendations) would be deemed “unvaccinated,” disregarding the fact that study results published in 1992 by Michel Aubert’s research team demonstrated that dogs were immune to a rabies challenge 5 years post-vaccination (see text of that study below). Serological studies done by Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine show that dogs have antibody titer counts at levels known to confer immunity to rabies 7 years post-vaccination. Based on the scientific research, any dog euthanized in Wyoming under this rule within 5 to 7 years of rabies vaccination will die needlessly.

On Page 13 of the The American Animal Hospital Association's (AAHA’s) 2003 Canine Vaccine Guidelines (accessible online at Leeburg Training http://www.leerburg.com/special_report.htm), it states: “The minimum DOI for killed rabies vaccine based on challenge studies is 3 years; based on antibody titers, it is considered to be up to 7 years [Table 2].” Vaccine manufacturers are not required by FDA to demonstrate long-term duration of immunity in order to license their products. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Principles of Vaccination (http://www.avma.org/issues/vaccination/vaccination.asp), “..revaccination frequency recommendations found on many vaccine labels …does not resolve the question about average or maximum duration of immunity [Page 2] and.may fail to adequately inform practitioners about optimal use of the product…[Page 4] .” This holds true for rabies vaccines, as Aubert’s and Schultz’s studies demonstrate that rabies vaccination confers minimum duration of immunity in dogs far beyond vaccine manufacturers’ 3 year booster recommendation.

In conversations with rabies vaccine researchers, I have been told that the Center for Disease Control has no recorded cases of any dog contracting rabies after receiving 2 rabies vaccinations. The implication is that 2 rabies vaccinations confer a lifetime of immunity. As a veterinarian, your own experience being vaccinated against rabies indicates the same. The Populations at Risk for Rabies sheet from Chiron Corporation, manufacturers of the RabAvert rabies vaccines for humans is accessible at http://www.rabavert.com/risk.html. Their pre-exposure vaccination recommendation for veterinarians, who are at greater risk than the general population for contracting rabies because their profession brings them into physical contact with potentially rabid animals, is for a “Primary course. No serologic testing or booster vaccination.” In other words, after the initial series of rabies vaccinations, it is not recommended that veterinarians receive further boosters or serological testing, they are considered to be immune to a challenge. AAHA’s 2003 Canine Vaccine Guidelines (accessible online at Leeburg Training http://www.leerburg.com/special_report.htm) states on Page 18 that “There is no indication that the immune system of canine patients functions in any way different from the human immune system. In humans, the epidemiological vigilance associated with vaccination is extremely well-developed and far exceeds similar efforts in animals whether companion or agricultural. This vigilance in humans indicates that immunity induced by vaccination in humans is extremely long lasting and, in most cases, life-long.” This strongly suggests that, like the human rabies vaccine, the canine rabies vaccine also provides life-long immunity.

The science reflects that Wyoming will be euthanizing immune dogs under the new euthanasia rule. I strongly urge you to re-examine this policy and consult with the world’s leading authorities on veterinary vaccines -- Dr. W. Jean Dodds of Hemopet and Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine -- about modifying this scientifically unwarranted euthanasia rule.

Ensuring that Wyoming’s beloved companion animals are not needlessly euthanized justifies closer scrutiny of this rule.