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Monday, 08 March 2010 08:43 |
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The latest scientific evidence indicates that most dogs are likely to be protected from viral diseases such as parvovirus, distemper virus and adenovirus (hepatitis) after the final puppy core vaccination at 16 weeks.
No further revaccination is likely to be required for these diseases, although pet owners can seek serological testing if they wish to verify their dog’s antibody status.
This simple message is still not being relayed to pet owners. Veterinarians in countries such as Australia, Britain and the United States continue to mislead pet owners with ill-founded advice, insisting they have their pets unnecessarily revaccinated ‘annually ’or ‘triennially’ with core vaccines when there is no scientific evidence to support this potentially harmful practice.
I'm very much in favour of evidence-based medicine, and I have written a number of fully referenced articles on the topic of unnecessary vaccination of pets – which is very much a money-making racket for the pharma companies and vets.
My submission titled "Unnecessary, and possibly harmful, use of companion animal vaccines" on the Australian National Regulatory System Discussion Paper contains many scientific references in relation to this issue, plus links to my other research papers: http://users.on.net/~peter.hart/PSIC_Submission_E_Hart.pdf
My soon to be published article "Too many needles ! Unnecessary vaccination exposed": http://users.on.net/~peter.hart/Too_many_needles.pdf provides an overview of the situation.
Elizabeth Hart
Australia
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