Pet Health Tip: Overvaccination? Pet Vaccine Disclosure Legislation - The Rabies Challenge Fund - Dr. W. Jean Dodds, Peter & Kris Christine

We received this message today. As with all things relating to your pet's health, you should seek the advice of your veterinarian. Unfortunately, most western vets won't agree with holistic vets on the issue of overvaccination. But having an informed discussion will certainly help ensure that you provide the best care for your pet. Vaccinosis can have some devastating effects, especially on an elderly pet...

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From: Peter & Kris Christine
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:06 PM
Subject: Pet Vaccine Disclosure Legislation

Greetings!

World-renowned veterinary research scientist, Dr. W. Jean Dodds, and I have established The Rabies Challenge Fund to raise funds to conduct a 7 year canine rabies vaccine challenge study in the United States. Dr. Dodds is trustee of the fund. For more information on the fund, read Kay Liss's story Nationwide Campaign Launched to Fund Rabies Vaccine Study in the Lincoln County News at http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=14204; Denise Flaim's 9/19/05 story Challenging the Rabies Vaccine in Newsday http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-lspets4432971sep19,0,1274963.column and Nancy Freedman Smith's Story in Maine Today, News, The Rabies Challenge Fund http://blogs.mainetoday.com/dogslife/002976.html. You can access the fund's official poster at http://www.zbirdbrain.com/PetAdvocatesTownHallCisSupport.htm . Anyone wishing to have a copy of the 1992 French challenge study data from a research team led by Michel Aubert in which dogs were demonstrated to be immune to a rabies challenge 5 years after vaccination, please e-mail me.
Also, in attempt to give pet owners adequate information so they do not inadvertently overvaccinate their animals, the Nation's First legislation which would have required veterinarians to provide vaccine disclosure forms to pet owners BEFORE they vaccinate their animals (cats & dogs) was filed in Maine this year. The bill, LD 429, An Act to Require Veterinarians to Provide Vaccine Disclosure Forms (http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD042901-1.asp http://www.dogsadversereactions.com/vaccines.html ) had been introduced on my behalf by Representative Peter Rines of Wiscasset and was vigorously opposed by the Maine Veterinary Medical Association and its members at the public hearing on February 28th and was recently defeated by Maine's Legislature. Pet owners in CT, PA, FL, MO, MN, RI, WI and TX are working on getting similar bills filed in their states for next year's legislative sessions, and AB263 was introduced in Nevada this year (2005) http://www.leg.state.nv.us/73rd/Reports/history.cfm?ID=1803 (contact Abigail Richlin-Schwartz at gold.eagle@cox.net).
It's official -- the lawfirm of the Chicago lawfirm of Childress Duffy Goldblatt, Ltd. (petvaccine@childresslaw.net) 312-494-0200 -- attorneys Roy R. Brandys and John Sawin-- has posted an announcement on their website about the NATIONAL pet vaccine class action lawsuit that their firm is undertaking at http://www.childresslaw.net/CM/Custom/Custom52.asp "arising from the misrepresentation of the need for vaccinations for your pets."

Please e-mail me back if you would like a copy of the letter to the MVMA or have any questions.
Regards, Kris L. Christine


Please educate yourself to make sure you don't needlessly overvaccinate your companion animals.

Pet Vaccines Informed Consent Posters/Flyers you can use free of charge: (my Meadow is the yellow lab in 3 of the posters) http://www.zbirdbrain.com/PetAdvocatesTownHallCISPics.htm

NBC-Still Vaccinating Your Pet Every Year? That May Not Be Necessary and May Even Cause Harm http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8572826/

Schultz, Dog Vaccines May Not Be Necessary http://www.news.wisc.edu/8413.html

(Dr. Ronald Schultz of U.Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine)
Should Vets Warn About Vaccines? http://www.newsday.com/features/columnists/ny-lspets4348332jul18,0,403799.column

Necessary or Not? Some Veterinarians and Pet Owners are Questioning Vaccines: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050612/REPOSITORY/506120373/1013/NEWS03

Vaccination often Good for Life: http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-lspets4251551may09,0,3030875.column?coll=ny-main-tabheads

No Vaccines for us this Year: http://blogs.mainetoday.com/dogslife/001539.shtml

Vaccinating Pets Could Do More Harm than Good (NBC Channel 4 Los Angeles) http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4448558/detail.html

Suspicious Shots: http://www.consciouschoice.com/2005/cc1803/suspiciousshots1803.html

Veterinarian warns over-vaccination can harm pets http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3408959&nav=0RaPaSJX

Are Annual Pet Vaccines Necessary? http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-6-81-118-3844-1,00.html

Can Vaccinating Pets Make them Sick? http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4501426/detail.html

Targeting changing vaccine protocols: http://www.vetmedpub.com/stu/target.html

Improving Veterinarians' Income a Top Goal of AVMA President-elect candidate Childers http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/mar04/040315g.asp

What Do We Tell Our Clients?, http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=61696

Developing Common Sense Strategies for Fiscal Responsibility: http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=61694

AAHA Wraps Up Canine Vaccine Guidelines: http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=46546

Deadly Immunity http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7395411

ABSTRACT (2004): Serum antibody Titres to Canine Parvovirus, Adenovirus and Distemper Virus in Dogs in the UK which Had Not BeenVaccinated for at Least Three Years: http://veterinaryrecord.bvapublications.com/cgi/content/abstract/154/15/457

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