WHY,
WHEN & HOW NON-CORE VACCINES
WERE
EXPOSED
Since the
early
1990s
numerous scientific papers have been published on the dangers
and ineffectiveness of certain human vaccines. Even so, vaccination risks have been suppressed and
some people
still take flu shots and subject their
pets to yearly booster shots.
Barbara J. Andrews
©
June
2002, update 2006
TheDogPlace
The media's
largest advertiser is the pharmaceutical industry so do not
expect to learn the risky side of drugs or vaccines there. This
is no less true when it comes to animal vaccines and in
particular, the practice-sustaining rabies and yearly
booster shots.
Prior to the internet, this writer tried to inform dog owners
about vaccines through seminars and magazine columns. When TheDogPlace
was launched and we were able to reach millions instead of
thousands, we received thinly veiled threats from the pharmaceutical
companies, including suggestions that criticism of
veterinary products could
shorten a writer’s career.
Interesting. We decided to
call their bluff. The first
project
launched by
TheDogPlace was a call for package inserts in veterinary
products. When Pfizer announced new “prescription inserts
policies” within two weeks after we published
Project:
Inserts, we were impressed with Pfizer’s
internet monitoring - and with the
observation that they had quoted word-for-word our
webmaster's introduction to the project!
Heady
with success, TheDogPlace then launched
Project: Vaccines and
joined by other websites, continued to report vaccine
information until in 2006, the veterinary associations (AAHA
& AVMA) capitulated by issuing a release defining "Core
Vaccines."
CORE & NON-CORE VACCINES - A
VICTORY OF SORTS
To make it appear that there was never a cover-up, they saved face by pretending it was
voluntary and had only been a matter of semantics all along. Sure,
like what protects canine health and what protects the
financial health of the
pharmaceutical companies and veterinary practices?
Philip Mansfield, DVM an Associate Professor at the highly
prestigious College of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn
(Alabama) University described vaccines as being of two
types: core and non-core. Core vaccines are vital in the prevention of parvo, distemper, and rabies.
Notably, rabies is rarely diagnosed in domestic animals but
rabies vaccine is necessary to protect the human population
from the risk of transmission from wild animal to family pet to family member.
The outspoken veterinarian
mentions that core vaccines may provide long immunity (like polio,
diphtheria and other childhood shots) and that studies are being conducted to determine how frequently we should re-vaccinate adult dogs. Note,
that was in 2001.
NON-CORE VACCINES DEFINED
Non-core vaccines are those that in my opinion, are ineffective, unnecessary, or considered not worth the risk to the animal or the veterinary practice.
Among non-core vaccines are leptospira, corona, giardia, bordetella, parainfluenza,
and Lyme disease. A side note on Lyme disease; one
pharmaceutical giant accused another of having the Lyme vaccine
on the shelf before the disease had been diagnosed in the
canine!!!
Most vets admit that corona
virus vaccine is of no value in older pups. Lepto often causes adverse reactions so most breeders don’t use it but owners don’t know that and most vets DO use it in combo shots. In over 40 years of active exhibiting, we never had a dog with kennel cough, never gave bordetella vaccine, and
always advised our owners to skip it. My personal
observation is that dogs that have had the vaccine develop kennel cough. Lyme disease vaccine is unnecessary because it doesn’t always protect the dog and antibiotic treatment is effective if properly diagnosed. Which it may not be, not by the vet that gave the preventative shot for Lyme disease!
VACCINATION LIABILITY &
MOTHER'S
IMMUNITY WINDOW
Think about that.
In human and veterinary medicine, it is most often the vet,
doctor, or pharmaceutical company whose diagnostic opinion is
considered "expert."
When a dog does develop the disease for which he was vaccinated, we’re told it was because of that timeless window when his mother’s immunity wore off or that it was because we gave our own shots and don’t know how, or that it is the dog’s immune system at fault. Most vets can’t explain what is wrong with the dog’s immune system in the first place so
vaccine breakthroughs are even blamed on genetics which means, right, the breeder is to blame.
By now, the owner is confused, frightened, and forgetting
who gave the shot that "didn’t work."
Titer tests are now being developed to measure distemper and parvo antibody. That is good but let’s face it, most owners would as soon vaccinate as pay for the tests.
Such tests are currently expensive and cost isn’t likely to
go down since demand for such testing must offset the lost vaccination income. What a tangled web we do weave.
Shot in the foot is the way this writer would characterize the veterinary professionals who refused to do their own research, relying instead on the drug salesmen and
pharmaceutical marketing strategy. Aren't you glad you don't
have to do that?
Excerpts from
SHOWSIGHT MAGAZINE June 2002
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small children!
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Project: Vaccines
began in 1981 as a personal
crusade initiated by an implausible explanation for the
first parvo outbreak (at the collie national specialty).
Barbara Andrews
speculated on a dark side
of the pharmaceutical industry in her column for The Dog Newspaper.
That was the first article in dog publications)
questioning the
efficacy, safety, and ORIGIN of modern vaccines. Dr.
Erbeck followed up with questions from a veterinarian's
perspective. Andrews and Erbeck speculated that Parvo
came from a lab accident, not from a mysterious mutation as
was repeatedly stated by the pharmaceutical industry.
The Vaccine Project
will not be complete until every owner is
aware of the risk vs. value of non-core vaccines and booster shots
and all vets practice "good medicine" which can be as
profitable as - the alternative.
Writing for every major dog magazine, including the AKC
Gazette, Kennel Review, Canine Chronicle, Dog World, and ShowSight,
Andrews fueled a growing vaccination skepticism.
The internet was recognized as a way to reach millions
instead of thousands and in 1998, Andrews launched and
funded TheDogPlace, followed by The Dog Press in 2004.
The Prescription
Insert Project
was initiated
in 2002 and finally resulted in
Prescription Inserts
for people
and progress has been made in veterinary medicine. In
2005, TheDogPlace promoted Kris Christine's efforts to
expose rabies vaccine risks. Her determination
resulted in the Rabies Challenge Fund. In July 2005,
Senator Kennedy warned of mercury in vaccines and the first
questions were raised about vaccines causing autism. March 2006, the American Animal
Hospital Assoc. (AAHA), the licensing
board for veterinary practices, caved in and published an
official position on "core" and "non-core" vaccines
with the first new
vaccine protocals
belatedly released by the AVMA.
http://www.thedogplace.org/VACCINES/Non-Core-Vaccine-History-2002_Andrews.asp
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