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Lincoln, NE 68501
402 - 476 - 4414
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Vaccinosis
Current questionable medical practices affecting the health of our companion animals.
Since it's inception, Animal Rescue Society has always tried to stay a step ahead of general veterinary thought on various issues. One of those issues is the practice of vaccinating our animals by injection for almost every known disease. Animal Rescue Society has never subscribed to this popular protocol. Having dealt with virtually thousands of animals over the past forty years we have never encountered a situation of any of our unvaccinated cats contracting a disease that is supposedly preventable through "vaccinations." To the contrary, we have witnessed countless animals, shortly after having received vaccinations display unusual and frightening symptoms. Not only have we experienced this first hand but receive calls from the public, on a continuing basis, informing us of similar experiences with their own animals. Unfortunately, when these reactions occur they are almost always dismissed by the veterinarian as having any causative link between the recent vaccinations and the onset of often very acute symptoms of ill health.
Sadly, disease that manifests itself some time later is even more difficult to establish a causative link. But veterinarians and others who have studied the possible link between vaccinations and the onset of immune disorders are now backing up our extensive experience of over nearly four decades. Even though anecdotal, there has been such a significant amount of evidence, it cannot be ignored. For years we accepted cats and dogs from the public for re-homing. We would often find that the animals that had been "routinely vaccinated" with follow-up boosters year after year would have more negative health conditions than feral's we were trapping and socializing for adoption. Cats in particular that received virtually no health care during their lives had healthy teeth and gums, optimal muscularization and were neither too thin nor too fat, and,an absence of parasites or were only minimally affected. On the other hand, the animals received from the public that had lived as "indoor-only" pets more often had weight issues and associated medical problems such as diabetes or poor teeth and gum health.
In the late eighties we began to butt heads with our veterinarians over the practice of regular vaccinations. We of course did not feel the animals should be vaccinated, not only because of our personal experience but this realization was now beginning to happen in some limited veterinary communities and we strongly felt that time would bear out what many were beginning to realize. Medical problems were beginning to appear that had no treatment because the animal's own immune system appeared to be turning on itself.
By educating ourselves and keeping abreast of new research, and just using good common sense and logic, we came to realize there was a strong possibility that what we were subjecting our animals to created nothing more than a tradeoff to other medical problems. After having vaccinated animals with multiple injections simultaneously, often it would be noticed that the animals began exhibiting other, more serious problems. Some of the suspected reactions included anaphylactic shock, profuse bleeding from multiple orifices usually leading to death, tumors at the injection sites, various skin conditions, liver failure, leukemia and aids. Other, as-yet unnamed conditions, involving animals immune system.have been flourishing in recent years.
As a rescuer for nearly forty years, we did not see most of these afflictions in years past. With the development of each new vaccination seemed to come new and different problems. Each new problem required veterinary intervention and, I suspect, the veterinarian was then hailed as a hero when, in reality, they were the one directly responsible for the problem in the first place.
ARS advocates titer testing for immunity rather than innoculating animals that may already have immunity. It just makes sense. The current method of injecting directly into the muscle is not only unnatural, but potentially very harmful to the animal.
Dr. Richard Moscowitz has studied this issue for decades and he, himself refuses to give vaccinations to children even when the parents insist. He has written extensively on this subject, one such medical article is titled "The Case Against Immunizations."
