Trust Me, I’m Not A Veterinarian

At the end of August, posted in an Animal Hospital exam room on a bulletin board was an alert that in Colorado there had been two cases of skunk rabies.

However, in September of 2007 when the Center of Disease Control (CDC) announced that the United States was free of canine rabies, no such announcement then or heretofore was posted in this exam room or any of the other of the said animal hospital exam rooms.

One can only wonder the implication of the former (scare – get your vaccinations or else your dog or cat will get rabies) versus the latter – maybe we don’t need to overvaccinate your companion animal.

When queried, the veterinarian indicated that he agreed ‘we are on the same side on over vaccination’ but ‘Jim, many of the minorities don’t get their dog vaccinated.’

Thus, the inference is scare is necessary, though the United States has been declared free of canine rabies by the CDC into vaccination. Then why wasn’t the CDC declaration posted in the name of full disclosure – so that the guardian could vaccinate but not over vaccinate?

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