Rabies/drugs/medicine

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

Bottom line, IMO, is the damn medical industry.  They make more money that way
and the encourage vets (and doctors) to give MORE inoculations, not less.
AND. MANY of these vaccines are NOT half as effectual as they claim (without
adequate research I may add).

True, dog rabies vaccine is good 3-5 years...the reason you give it once a
year is because MOST states (because of the state veterinarians under
government salary and backed by the medical and drug company through lobbies)
require proof of rabies vaccine yearly for interstate travel.

One BIG reason I like endurance people: Our horses and dogs are healthy and
well cared for.  WE are NOT the ones spreading the diseases...it's the
backyard owner who does not know any better.

I do NOT vaccinate except for necessary paperwork for travel.  I do NOT give
heart worm medicine and only minimal vaccinations to my dogs, cats, horses OR
for myself.  I have not been to a doctor in 20 years and hope to keep it that
way.  I have saved tens of thousands on medical bills and insurance but resort
to reading, thinking and using common sense...seemingly a thing of the past
according not only to recent discussion on ridecamp of rudeness on trails, to
lack of clarity in thought in responses, but to our population in general.

The older I get, the more I want to be a hermit (except for endurance rides,
that is).

God love (and save) MOST of us!!!!

Teddy

Truman Prevatt wrote:

> This post is not directed at any one person in particular.  It is a
> general statement as to how I see this issue.
>
> I do not know the probability of acute reaction to a vaccine, however a
> friends mine almost died from a reaction to a rabies vaccine. Does anybody
> know the probability of an acute and more importantly does anybody the
> probability of long term detrimental  effects of repeated vaccinations?
> Most likely not and that is I think the issue.  My vet (as well as others)
> tell me that rabies vaccines are good for at least 3 years in dogs.  Then
> why do we vaccinate ever year?  What is the effectively of rabies vaccine
> in horses?
>
> How many drugs and vaccines have passed "FDA type testing" to be withdrawn
> several years later when long term cumulative effects had time to show
> up?  In the early days people were told that exposure low levels of
> radiation was no serious health risk - well WRONG!
>
> For my taste there are too many question unanswered to properly access the
> long term risk vs. benefit which is required to design an optimal strategy
> for vaccination against most diseases - be it in animals or humans.  I
> think the public deserves answers to its questions rather than scare
> tactics which some of the public health establishment tends to use.  Over
> the last decade in FL there were about 10 times as many horses that died
> from lightening than died from rabies and many many more died from
> encephalitis than rabies.  There were more people killed on the golf
> course by lightening last year than have died in the last 20 years of
> rabies.
>
> Are we trying to prevent a very low probability event using a treatment
> which has a greater probability of causing a negative effect in long
> term?  Can anyone answer that with any type of statistically justifiable
> confidence?
>
> Questions....questions......questions........
>
> Truman
>
> dluehosh@juno.com wrote:
>
> > I concur with Dr. Newell on this one. I also have never seen a reaction
> > to the vaccine itself.
> > Gwen Dluehosh DVM
>
> --
> Truman Prevatt
> Brooksville, FL
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