Over Vaccination - Dosage & Or Frequency - A Case
Over-vaccination – Dosage & Frequency
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           Over vaccination is not merely a question of frequency but also dosage. The same rabies dosage is given to Scooby Doo as the Taco Bell Chihuahua!
           Does that make any sense?
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           Emails like the one below to the Next To Kin Foundation (www.next2kin.org) are not untypical.
           But what you may find interesting is the response of a nationally famous Professor relative to the question of over vaccination. In prior emails to this writer (July, 2008), he outlined out size matters relative to dosage. (As a matter of fact, he pointed to a research study he was part of relative to 360 animal hospitals over a 3 day period which showed adverse reaction to shots of 4/10ths of 1% just in this short period. More importantly, the adverse reactions of small breeds were 10 times higher than large breeds.
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           In particular: Per ‘Adverse Events Diagnosed Within Three Days of Vaccine Administration In Dogs’ (JAVMA, Vol 227, No.7, October 1, 2005, Moore, Glickman etc, “The VAAE (nonspecific vaccine reaction, allergic reaction, urticaria, or anaphylaxis) rate decreased significantly as body weight increased…young small-breed neutered dogs that received multiple vaccines per office visit were at the greatest risk of a VAAE within 72 hours after vaccination.’
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(Remembering this was study was conducted for only 3 days at 640 veterinary hospitals but on 1,226,159 dogs is interesting to note in the 3 days period only - the top 10 incidents of VAAEÂ were ALL small dogs. For example, the rate on the Dachsuhund was 121.7/10,000 dogs while the Rottweiler was 13/10,000 dogs or almost 1000% difference)
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Yet, in his response to the subsequent situation, he seems to have changed his position. When I responded to what seems to be a change in his position – he has yet to reply.
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  From: XXX Subject: Rabies Vaccine question My 2.6 lb 6 month old Yorkie received her first rabies vaccine on Friday, November 14th. It was administered in her right leg, which at the time upset me because that is the knee that is the worst with patellar luxation. Saturday morning, we noticed that Chloe no longer was getting around very well and seem lethargic. We just figured it was from getting the shot and babied her a little. By Saturday evening, she would no longer mover her hind legs. By Monday, she was only moving her head, had lost appetite and was no longer drinking. Tuesday morning I took her to the vet because she seemed to be completely paralyzed. He kept her overnight and sent her home yesterday saying he wasn’t sure what was wrong with her. They gave me some antibiotics and cortisone to give her, and said to keep them updated on her progress and bring her back in for a check up on Tuesday of next week. They did x-rays, blood work, $225 worth of care, and still couldn’t find anything. She could move her legs a little, but couldn’t support herself. She has lost all control of body functions and is in need of 24 hr care. Today, she has started to army crawl/scoot herself on the floor a little, but is exhausted afterwards. She still has no control of body functions. Does this sound like something that came about from her rabies vaccine, and what should I do? Is there anything else we can do to help her get back to normal if this is the cause? And if it isn’t the vaccine, do I risk giving her the vaccine in the future?   |
 Here are the response to this email? Contrary to the past research cited previously by him?????
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Re: From Jim Schwartz - The Kind of Emails I get —Fw: Rabies Vaccine question Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:29 PM From: FAMOUS VET PROFESSOR To: Message contains attachments Adverse Events Vaccines Moore 2005 JAVMA Dogs.pdf (313KB) |
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Sorry but I fail to see how administration of a rabies vaccine to a dog at 6 months of age constitutes over vaccination as you stated. Rabies vaccination is required in most places as it should be. Any veterinarian who fails to vaccinate an eligible dog for rabies should lose his/her license to practice. I suggest you and others familiarize yourself with the attached paper which describes the largest vaccination study ever done in dogs and the associated rates of adverse events. The overall reaction rate to vaccines in dogs is about o.35% and the vast majority of these reactions are mild allergic events. Could vaccine associated adverse event rates in dogs be reduced? Yes, but it would significantly increase the cost of vaccines from about $2 per dose to the $35-200 cost that we see for human vaccines. |
 (The professor is incorrect confusing cost to the veterinarian of the shot and cost to the consumer. The cost of the rabies shot (depending on volume is as low as $.60 cents. The cost to the owner guardian is $15-$35 at most animal hospitals). That aside his argument is cost benefit – adverse reactions versus increased cost – and he provides no evidence of the increase of cost even though he had indicated to another guardian that 2 manufacturers were working on vaccines for smaller dogs (an implicit admission of the higher incidence of adverse reaction relative to size).  PS The CDC as of 9/2007 declared the United States free of canine rabies - so why then are we giving 80 million plus shot$$$$ a year?
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Re: From Jim Schwartz - The Kind of Emails I get —Fw: Rabies Vaccine question Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:52 PM From: “james schwartz” <manofdog01@yahoo.com> To: Â |
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