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Pro's & Con's: Positions in Favor of
Retaining Annual Rabies Vaccination Requirements And Counter Points
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Position Against |
Position In Favor |
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Position in Favor of a
Three-Year Interval Requirement for Rabies Vaccinations in
Texas
It is my position that Texas should adopt a rabies vaccination
requirement for dogs and cats that specifies that dogs and
cats must be vaccinated for rabies by four months of age, one
year later, and every three years thereafter. A rabies vaccine
with a three-year duration of immunity must be used for dogs.
Cats can be vaccinated with either a one-year duration of
immunity product, annually, or a three-year duration of
immunity product every three years. |
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1.) This is the
option recommended by the National Association of Public
Health Veterinarians |
3.) Public
exposure to rabies rarely comes from pets that have been
vaccinated and become delinquent. Human rabies cases come
predominately from wildlife and unvaccinated domestic animals. |
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2.) Dogs and
Cats suffer adverse side effects like Immune Mediated
Hemolytic Anemia in dogs, and fibrosarcomas in cats from
unnecessary vaccines. Less vaccinations will mean less side
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4.) A three
year duration of immunity Rabies vaccine is good for three
years or longer. After the second rabies vaccination, the
immune status of the pet is not significantly enhanced by
re-administration of vaccines, at more frequent intervals than
necessary. Just as maternal antibodies can block a vaccine
from stimulating the immune system, actively acquired
antibodies from a previous vaccination can block the
re-administration of a vaccine from enhancing the patient’s
immune status. Clients are paying for vaccinations with little
or no benefit |
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Additional Topics For
Consideration
q Given the data
that shows a few Rabies vaccine failures in dogs that have
received only one Rabies vaccination, and given that most of
these vaccine failures involved dogs that had received the
Rabies vaccination at three months, would it be prudent to
vaccinate dogs for rabies at four months of age, and would it
be prudent to initially administer two rabies vaccinations one
month apart, particularly in counties facing an outbreak of
rabies.?
q Given the data by
Dr Ron Schultz that shows difficulty in immunizing certain
breeds such as Rottweilers, and Dobermans, before they reach
two years of age, would it be prudent to administer one
additional rabies vaccine at two years of age for certain
breeds where sero-conversion has been a demonstrated problem?
q Given that the
World Health Organization has declared adjuvanted vaccines to
be carcinogenic to cats, and given the studies by the
Fibrosarcoma Task Force of the AVMA demonstrating mutations in
cell culture caused by adjuvanted vaccines, and given the
estimated incidence of injection site fibrosarcomas at 22,000
per year as evidenced by the number presented to various
referral centers and Schools of Veterinary Medicine across the
United States, and given that we have the safer alternative to
use non-adjuvanted vaccines; Is it prudent at this time for
Veterinarians to stop using adjuvanted vaccines in cats?
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States have a three-year interval requirement and public exposure
to rabies by domestic animals is not higher in those states.
Veterinarians
MUST STOP using adjuvanted vaccines in cats. Until non-adjuvanted
Rabies vaccines receive a 3 year DOI approval, annual vaccination
with a non-adjuvanted vaccine is safer.
