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Pet vaccination lawsuit!!

Dr. Bob Rogers, DVM, is a 1975 grad of Texax A & M and has been in vet practice for 30 years. In an article in Natural Horse magazine, vol 8 no 1 2006, which is an interview with Lisa Ross-Williams, he mentions that his curiosity about vaccines was piqued when in 1988, a new corona vaccine for dogs came out. He had never seen a case of corona virus, so he talked to the manufacturer who acknowledged that it was not a disease of adult dogs, only puppies, yet they were marketing it for all dogs. Then in 1997 he went to a seminar with Dr. Ron Schultz, the most prominent immunologist in vet medicine, who said that giving vaccs like rabies, distemper and parvo annually had no effect. He realized that the continuing ed classes on vaccination for vets were being conducted by paid representatives of the vaccine companies. He went to the Texas vet board who sent out a letter to Texas vets saying they should change their vaccine recommendations, but they are not enforcing this, so he went to the Sunset Commission, which is a group of senators who oversee the state vet board. They sent a letter to the vet board and told them to crack down on unnecessary vaccs, but the board said they intended to ignore that mandate. There are now lawsuits going on in several states, by animal owners whose pets have been harmed by these unnecessary vaccinations. Dr. Rogers is supplying scientific literature for the class action lawsuit.

He goes on to say that a vaccine is basically a virus or bacteria that has been weakened or killed so that it hopefully cannot cause the disease. The animal is then being depended upon to produce antibodies. If an animal has already been vaccinated for one of the core diseases like rabies, distemper and parvo, the antibodies will block the effectiveness of any further vaccine for that disease. So the client is paying for something with no effect. Vaccines like leptosporosis have a very short duration, but he said only 12 dogs a year get lepto in Texas, out of 12 million dogs. So does it make sense to vaccinate for something that your dog has only a 1 in a million chance of getting? The vaccine is only 60-80% effective at any rate. If an animal has a compromised immune system or some chronic issue, they risk getting the disease that they being vaccinated for, so vaccines should only be used on healthy animals. The protocol that he recommends is rabies, distemper, parvo at 8, 12, 16 weeks and then again at one year, and that is it. Most vaccines are good for 7 years to life, so even the current recommendation of vaccinating every 3 years instead of yearly, was a compromise to protect the income of the veterinarians, in his opinion.

For adverse events, there is no reporting network. it was discontinued several years ago to save on government funding. The most severe vaccine reaction is the sarcoma that occurs in cats, that is 100% fatal and kills about 22,000 cats yearly. He says if vets would just warn the cat owner who does get the vaccine, that if a lump is still there at the vaccine site 3 weeks later, have it removed and hopefully it will not become the cancer. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to stimulate the immune system, and the adjuvant is what seems to be causing the cancer in cats. The adjuvants are usually an aluminum additive, designed to draw the immune system to the site of the vaccine by creating inflammation there, and it also makes the vaccine more of a sustained release product. Adjuvants were declared a Class 2 Carcinogen by the World Health Organization, but our USDA does not want to recognize that. The AVMA asked the USDA to revise their standards for licensing vaccines in 1998. Since then, they have licensed vaccs that have no effect, that don't even contain the virus or disease they are supposed to prevent, and that contain adjuvants.

Dr. Rogers feels the state boards should do their duty to protect the public and the USDA should clean up their act.

The AVMA in 2001 published a white paper saying there is no scientific proof to support annual vaccines, but 90% of vets are ignoring that. The AVMA is a private trade organization, the vets pay dues to them, and they get most of their money from the drug companies, but the AVMA does exist to benefit the vets. Though they have an ethics clause and committee, they are not seeming to come down on the vets who are practicing false advertising by advocating repeated vaccinations. In some states, legislation is being drawn up that would require vets to have informed consent before vaccinating a pet. He says most people just come roaring in to the vet office with the dog, in a hurry to get to the soccer game or whatever, the dog is due for shots, just do it, I don't have time to hear about any side effects, blah blah. Some owners seem to feel that if they don't know the risks and dangers, then they can't be held accountable…….but it has to start with the client insisting about knowing the adverse side effects. There are seats on the state vet board that are open to the public, Dr. Rogers says if you really love animals, get on your state board, right now it is the foxes watching the henhouse.

The issue is that if people knew that their animal is 5 times more likely to get cancer if a vaccine is adjuvanted, or that adult dogs don't get corona virus so there is no need to give that vaccine, they would not be buying the riskier option. The U C Davis changed their policy 7 years ago, and do not give any adjuvanted vaccines. Any vet who has graduated from Texas A & M in the last 17 years was taught that adult dogs don't get corona, yet when the grads come out and go to work in a clinic, their boss tells them they have to do it....and they have student loans to pay so they have to comply if they want their job.

Dr. Rogers' advice is, start writing letters to your state vet board and legislators. Start insisting that doctors, dentists and vets stop getting their advice and continuing education from the drug companies. Someone who is board certified in a particular field and has no conflict of interest or paid interest in products being discussed should be doing the education. The lawsuit is not just for Texas people, if you have had a pet or animal damaged by a vaccine.

The law firm accepting the complaints is Childress, Duffy, Goldblatt of Chicago www.childresslaw.net

For more info on this subject, you can go to: www.critteradvocacy.org is Dr. Rogers' website and www.catshots.com

You can listen to the full radio interview at www.NaturalHorseTalk.com

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