Post by RealPitBull on Apr 1, 2009 8:40:07 GMT -5
This was posted on one of my dog show lists. It is about a year old, and was first published in Nexus Magazine. Really interesting stuff. Long but worth it.
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Science of Vaccine Damage
by Catherine O'Driscoll
(posted by Maurisa Payne, www.northgatespring ers.com<http://www.northgat espringers. com/> with direct permission from the author)
> A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several
> studies (1,2) to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune
> system of dogs that might lead to life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. They
> obviously conducted this research because concern already existed. It was
> sponsored by the Haywood Foundation which itself was looking for evidence that
> such changes in the human immune system might also be vaccine=2 0induced. It
> found the evidence.
>
> The vaccinated, but not the non-vaccinated, dogs in the Purdue studies
> developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin,
> lam inin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen.
> This means that the vaccinated dogs -- "but not the non-vaccinated dogs"--
> were attacking their own fibronectin, which is involved in tissue repair,
> cell multiplication and growth, and differentiation between tissues and organs
> in a living organism.
>
> The vaccinated Purdue dogs also developed autoantibodies to laminin, which
> is involved in many cellular activities including the adhesion, spreading,
> differentiation, proliferation and movement of cells. Vaccines thus appear to be
> capable of removing the natural intelligence of cells.
>
> Autoantibodies to cardiolipin are frequently found in patients with the
> serious disease systemic lupus erythematosus and also in individuals with other
> autoimmune diseases. The presence of elevated anti-cardiolipin antibodies is
> significantly associated with clots within the heart or blood vessels, in poor
> blood clotting, haemorrhage, bleeding into the skin, foetal loss and
> neurological conditions.
>
> The Purdue studies also found that vaccinated dogs were developing
> autoantibodies to their own collagen. About one quarter of all the protein in the body
> is collagen. Collagen provides structure to our bodies, protecting and
> supporting the softer tissues and connecting them with the skeleton. It is no wo
> nder that C anine Health Concern's 1997 study of 4,000 dogs showed a high
> number of dogs developing mobility problems shortly after they were vaccinated
> (noted in my 1997 book, What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines).
>
> Perhaps most worryingly, the Purdue studies found that the vaccinated dogs
> had developed autoantibodies to their own DNA. Did the alarm bells sound? Did
> the scientific community call a halt to the vaccination program? No. Instead,
> they stuck their fingers in the air, saying more research is needed to
> ascertain whether vaccines can cause genetic damage. Meanwhile, the study dogs
> were found good homes, but no long-term follow-up has been conducted. At around
> the same time, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
> Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why
> 160,000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their vaccine
> injection sites.(3) The fact that cats can get vaccine-induced cancer has been
> acknowledged by veterinary bodies around the world, and even the British
> Government acknowledged it through its Working Group charged with the task of
> looking into canine and feline vaccines(4) following pressure from Canine Health
> Concern. What do you imagine was the advice of the AVMA Task Force,
> veterinary bodies and governments? "Carry on vaccinating until we find out why
> vaccines are killing cats, and which cats are most likely to die."
>
>
> In America, in an attempt to mitigate the problem, they're vaccinating cats
> in the tail or leg so they can amputate when cancer appears. Great advice if
> it's not your cat amongst the hundreds of thousands on the "oops" list.
>
> But other species are okay - right? Wrong. In August 2003, the Journal of
> Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also
> develop vaccine-induced cancers at their injection sites.(5) We already know that
> vaccine-site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the
> Salk polio vaccine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the
> vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer. The monkey
> retrovirus SV40 keeps turning up in human cancer sites.
>
> It is also widely acknowledged that vaccines can cause a fast-acting,
> usually fatal, disease called autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). Without
> treatment, and frequently with treatment, individuals can die in agony within a
> matter of days. Merck, itself a multinational vaccine manufacturer, states in The
> Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that autoimmune haemolytic anaemia may
> be caused by modified live-virus vaccines, as do Tizard's Veterinary
> Immunology (4th edition) and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.(6) The
> British Government's Working Group, despite being staffed by vaccine-industry
> consultants wh o say they are independent, also acknowledged this fact.
> However, no one warns the pet owners before their animals are subjected to an
> unnecessary booster, and very few owners are told why after their pets die of AIHA.
>
>
> A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced Diseases
>
> We also found some worrying correlations between vaccine events and the
> onset of arthritis in our 1997 survey. Our concerns were compounded by research
> in the human field.
>
> The New England Journal of Medicine, for example, reported that it is
> possible to isolate the rubella virus from affected joints in children vaccinated
> against rubella. It also told of the isolation of viruses from the peripheral
> blood of women with prolonged arthritis following vaccination. (7)
>
> Then, in 2000, CHC's findings were confirmed by research which showed that
> polyarthritis and other diseases like amyloidosis, which affects organs in
> dogs, were linked to the combined vaccine given to dogs.(8) There is a huge body
> of research, despite the paucity of funding from the vaccine industry, to
> confirm that vaccines can cause a wide range of brain and central nervous
> system damage. Merck itself states in its Manual that vaccines (i.e., its own
> products) can cause encephalitis: brain inflammation/ damag e. In some cases,
> encephalitis involves lesions in the brain and throughout the central nervous
> system. Merck states that "examples are the encephalitides following measles,
> chickenpox, rubella, smallpox vaccination, vaccinia, and many other less well
> defined viral infections".
>
> When the dog owners who took part in the CHC survey reported that their dogs
> developed short attention spans, 73.1% of the dogs did so within three
> months of a vaccine event. The same percentage of dogs was diagnosed with epilepsy
> within three months of a shot (but usually within days). We also found that
> 72.5% of dogs that were considered by their owners to be nervous and of a
> worrying disposition, first exhibited these traits within the three-month
> post-vaccination period.
>
> I would like to add for the sake of Oliver, my friend who suffered from
> paralysed rear legs and death shortly after a vaccine shot, that "paresis" is
> listed in Merck's Manual as a symptom of encephalitis. This is defined as
> muscular weakness of a neural (brain) origin which involves partial or inco mplete
> paralysis, resulting from lesions at any level of the descending pathway from
> the brain. Hind limb paralysis is one of the potential consequences.
> Encephalitis, incidentally, is a disease that can manifest across the scale from
> mild to severe and can also cause sudden death.
>
> Organ failu re must also be suspected when it occurs shortly after a vaccine
> event. Dr Larry Glickman, who spearheaded the Purdue research into
> post-vaccination biochemical changes in dogs, wrote in a letter to Cavalier Spaniel
> breeder Bet Hargreaves:
>
> >> "Our ongoing studies of dogs show that following routine vaccination,
>> there is a significant rise in the level of antibodies dogs produce against
>> their own tissues. Some of these antibodies have been shown to target the
>> thyroid gland, connective tissue such as that found in the valves of the heart,
>> red blood cells, DNA, etc. I do believe that the heart conditions in Cavalier
>> King Charles Spaniels could be the end result of repeated immunisations by
>> vaccines containing tissue culture contaminants that cause a progressive
>> immune response directed at connective tissue in the heart valves. The clinical
>> manifestations would be more pronounced in dogs that have a genetic
>> predisposition [although] the findings should be generally applicable to all dogs
>> regardless of their breed."
>>
>
> I must mention here that Dr Glickman believes that vaccines are a necessary
> evil, but that safer vaccines need to be developed.
>
> Meanwhile, please join the queue to place your dog, cat, horse and child on
> the Russian roulette wheel because a scientist says you should.
>
> Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory Response
>
> The word "allergy" is synonymous with "sensitivity" and "inflammation" . It
> should, by rights, also be synonymous with the word "vaccination" . This is
> what vaccines do: they sensitise (render allergic)an individual in the process
> of forcing them to develop antibodies to fight a disease threat. In other
> words, as is acknowledged and accepted, as part of the vaccine process the body
> will respond with inflammation. This may be apparently temporary or it may be
> longstanding.
>
> Holistic doctors and veterinarians have known this for at least 100 years.
> They talk about a wide range of inflammatory or "-itis" diseases which arise
> shortly after a vaccine event. Vaccines, in fact, plunge many individuals
> into an allergic state. Again, this is a disorder that ranges from mild all the
> way through to the suddenly fatal. Anaphylactic shock is the culmination:
> it's where an individual has a massive allergic reaction to a vaccine and will
> die within minutes if adrenaline or its equivalent is not administered.
>
> There are some individuals who are genetically not well placed to withstand
> the vaccine challenge. These are the people (and animals are "people", too)
> who have inherited faulty B and T cell function. B and T cells are components
> within the immune system which ident ify foreign invaders and destroy them,
> and hold the invader in memory so that they cannot cause future harm. However,
> where inflammatory responses are concerned, the immune system overreacts and
> causes unwanted effects such as allergies and other inflammatory conditions.
>
>
>
> Merck warns in its Manual that patients with, or from families with, B
> and/or T cell immunodeficiencies should not receive live-virus vaccines due to the
> risk of severe or fatal infection. Elsewhere, it lists features of B and T
> cell immunodeficiencies as food allergies, inhalant allergies, eczema,
> dermatitis, neurological deterioration and heart disease. To translate, people with
> these conditions can die if they receive live-virus vaccines. Their immune
> systems are simply not competent enough to guarantee a healthy reaction to the
> viral assault from modified live-virus vaccines.
>
>
> Modified live-virus (MLV) vaccines replicate in the patient until an immune
> response is provoked. If a defence isn't stimulated, then the vacc ine
> continues to replicate until it gives the patient the very disease it was intending
> to prevent.
>
> Alternatively, a deranged immune response will lead to inflammatory
> conditions such as arthritis, pancreatitis, colitis, encephalitis and any number of
> autoimmune diseases such as cancer and leukaemia, where the body attacks its
> own cells.
>
> A new theory, stumbled upon by Open University student Gary Smith, explains
> what holistic practitioners have been saying for a very long time. Here is
> what a few of the holistic vets have said in relation to their patients:
> Dr Jean Dodds: "Many veterinarians trace the present problems with allergic
> and immunologic diseases to the introduction of MLV vaccines..." (9)
> Christina Chambreau, DVM: "Routine vaccinations are probably the worst thing
> that we do for our animals. They cause all types of illnesses, but not
> directly to where we would relate them definitely to be caused by the vaccine."
> (10)
>
> Martin Goldstein, DVM: "I think that vaccines...are leading killers of dogs
> and cats in America today."
>
> Dr Charles E. Loops, DVM: "Homoeopathic veterinarians an d other holistic
> practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than
> they provide benefits." (12)
>
> Mike Kohn, DVM: "In response to this [vaccine] violation, there have been
> increased autoimmune diseases (allergies being one component), epilepsy,
> neoplasia [tumours], as well as behavioural problems in small animals." (13)
>
> A Theory on Inflammation
> Gary Smith explains what observant healthcare practitioners have been saying
> for a very long time, but perhaps they've not understood why their
> observations led them to say it. His theory, incidentally, is causing a huge stir
> within the inner scientific sanctum. Some believe that his theory could lead to a
> cure for many diseases including cancer. For me, it explains why the vaccine
> process is inherently questionable.
>
> Gary was learning about inflammation as part of his studies when he struck
> upon a theory so extraordinary that it could have implications for the
> treatment of almost every inflammatory disease -- including Alzheimer's,
> Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis and even HIV and AIDS.
>
> Gary's theory questions the received wisdom that when a person gets ill, the
> inflammation that occurs around the=2 0infected area helps it to heal. He
> claims that, in reality, inflammation prevents the body from recognising a
> foreign substance and therefore serves as a hiding place for invaders. The
> inflammation occurs when at-risk cells produce receptors called All (known as
> angiotensin II type I receptors). He says that while At1 has a balancing receptor,
> At2, which is supposed to switch off the inflammation, in most diseases this
> does not happen.
>
> "Cancer has been described as the wound that never heals," he says. "All
> successful cancers are surrounded by inflammation. Commonly this is thought to
> be the body's reaction to try to fight the cancer, but this is not the case.
>
> "The inflammation is not the body trying to fight the infection. It is
> actually the virus or bacteria deliberately causing inflammation in order to hide
> from the immune system [author's emphasis]." (14)
>
> If Gary is right, then the inflammatory process so commonly stimulated by
> vaccines is not, as hitherto assumed, a necessarily acceptable sign. Instead,
> it could be a sign that the viral or bacterial component, or the adjuvant
> (which, containing foreign protein, is seen as an invader by the immune system),
> in the vaccine is winning by stealth.
>
> If Gary is correc t in believing that the inflammatory response is not
> protective but a sign that invasion is taking place under cover of darkness,
> vaccines are certainly not the friends we thought they were. They are undercover
> assassins working on behalf of the enemy, and vets and medical doctors are
> unwittingly acting as collaborators. Worse, we animal guardians and parents are
> actually paying doctors and vets to unwittingly betray our loved ones.
>
> Potentially, vaccines are the stealth bomb of the medical world. They are
> used to catapult invaders inside the castle walls where they can wreak havoc,
> with none of us any the wiser. So rather than experiencing frank viral
> diseases such as the 'flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs,
> parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway - but with
> cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self-attacking)
> diseases taking their place.
>
> The Final Insult
>
> All 27 veterinary schools in North America have changed their protocols for
> vaccinating dogs and cats along the following lines; (15) however, vets in
> practice are reluctant to listen to these changed protocols and official
> veterinary bodies in the UK and other countries are ignoring the following facts.
>
> Dogs' and cats' immune systems mature fully at six months. If modified
> live-virus vaccine is giver after six months of age, it produces immunity, which
> is good for the life of the pet. If another MLV vaccine is given a year later,
> the antibodies from the first vaccine neutralise the antigens of the second
> vaccine and there is little or no effect. The litre is no "boosted", nor are
> more memory cells induced.
>
> Not only are an nual boosters unnecessary, but they subject the pet to
> potential risks such as allergic reactions and immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia.
>
>
> In plain language, veterinary schools in America, plus the American
> Veterinary Medical Association, have looked at studies to show how long vaccines last
> and they have concluded and announced that annual vaccination is
> unnecessary. (16-19)
>
> Further, they have acknowledged that vaccines are not without harm. Dr Ron
> Schultz, head of pathobiology at Wisconsin University and a leading light in
> this field, has been saying this politely to his veterinary colleagues since
> the 1980s. I've been saying it for the past 12 years. But change is so long in
> coming and, in the meantime, hundreds of thousands of animals are dying
> every year - unnecessarily.
>
> The g ood news is that thousands of animal lovers (but not enough) have
> heard what we've been saying. Canine Health Concern members around the world use
> real food as Nature's supreme disease preventative, eschewing processed pet
> food, and minimise the vaccine risk. Some of us, myself included, have chosen
> not to vaccinate our pets at all. Our reward is healthy and long-lived dogs.
>
> It has taken but one paragraph to tell you the good and simple news. The
> gratitude I feel each day, when I embrace my healthy dogs, stretches from the
> centre of the Earth to the Universe and beyond.
>
> >> About the Author:
>> Catherine O'Driscoll runs Canine Health Concern which campaigns and also
>> delivers an educational program, the Foundation in Canine Healthcare. She is
>> author of Shock to the System (2005; see review this issue), the best-selling
>> book What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines (1997, 1998), and Who Killed
>> the Darling Buds of May? (1997; reviewed in NEXUS 4/04).
>>
>> She lives in Scotland with her partner, Rob Ellis, and three Golden
>> Retrievers, named Edward, Daniel and Gwinnie, and she lectures on canine health
>> around the world.
>>
>> For more information, contact Catherine O'Driscoll at Canine Health
>> Concern, PO Box 7533, Per th PH2 1AD, Scotland, UK, email catherine@carsegray .co.uk<about:blank>
>> , website www.canine- health-concern. org.uk.<about:blank>
>>
>> Shock to the System is available in the UK from CHC, and worldwide from
>> Dogwise at www.dogwise. com.<about:blank>
>>
> Endnotes
> 1. "Effects of Vaccination on the Endocrine and Immune Systems of Dogs,
> Phase II", Purdue University, November 1,1999, at
> www.homestea d.com/vonhapsbur g/haywardstudyon vaccines. html.<about:blank>
>
> 2. See www.vet.purdue. edu/epi/gdhstudy .htm.
>
> 3. See www.avma. org/vafstf/ default.asp.<about:blank>
>
> 4. Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) Working Group on Feline and Canine
> Vaccination, DEFRA, May 2001.
>
> 5. JVM Series A 50(6):286-291, August 2003.
>
> 6. Duval, D. and Giger,U. (1996). "Vaccine-Associated Immune-Mediated
> Hemolytic Anemia in the Dog", Journal of Ve terinary Internal Medicine 10:290-295.
>
> 7. New England Journal of Medicine, vol.313,1985.
> See also Clin Exp Rheumatol 20(6):767-71, Nov-Dec 2002.
>
> 8. Am Coll Vet Intern Med 14:381,2000.
>
> 9. Dodds, Jean W.,DVM, "Immune System and Disease Resistance", at
> www.critterc hat.net/immune. htm.<about:blank>
>
> 10. Wolf Clan magazine, April/May 1995.
>
> 11. Goldstein, Martin, The Nature of Animal Healing, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf,
> Inc., 1999.
>
> 12. Wolf Clan magazine, op. cit.
>
> 13. ibid.
>
> 14. Journal of Inflammation 1:3,2004, at www.journal- inflammation. com<about:blank>
> content/1/1/ 3.
>
> 15. Klingborg, D.J., Hustead, D.R. and Curry-Galvin, E. et al., "AVMA
> Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents' report on cat and dog vaccines",
> Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221(10):1401- 1407, November
> 15,2002,
> www.avma. org/policies/ vaccination. htm.<about:blank>
>
> 16. ibid.
>
> 17. Schultz, R.D., "Current and future canine and feline vaccination
> programs", Vet Med 93:233-254,1998.
>
> 18. Schultz, R.D., Ford, R.B., Olsen, J. and Scott, P., "Titer testing and
> vaccination: a new look at traditional practices", Vet Med 97:1-13, 2002
> (insert).
>
> 19. Twark, L. and Dodds, W.J., "Clinical application of serum parvovirus and
> distemper virus antibody liters for determining revaccination strategies in
> healthy dogs", J Am Vet Med Assoc 217:1021-1024, 2000.
>
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Science of Vaccine Damage
by Catherine O'Driscoll
(posted by Maurisa Payne, www.northgatespring ers.com<http://www.northgat espringers. com/> with direct permission from the author)
> A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several
> studies (1,2) to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune
> system of dogs that might lead to life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. They
> obviously conducted this research because concern already existed. It was
> sponsored by the Haywood Foundation which itself was looking for evidence that
> such changes in the human immune system might also be vaccine=2 0induced. It
> found the evidence.
>
> The vaccinated, but not the non-vaccinated, dogs in the Purdue studies
> developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin,
> lam inin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen.
> This means that the vaccinated dogs -- "but not the non-vaccinated dogs"--
> were attacking their own fibronectin, which is involved in tissue repair,
> cell multiplication and growth, and differentiation between tissues and organs
> in a living organism.
>
> The vaccinated Purdue dogs also developed autoantibodies to laminin, which
> is involved in many cellular activities including the adhesion, spreading,
> differentiation, proliferation and movement of cells. Vaccines thus appear to be
> capable of removing the natural intelligence of cells.
>
> Autoantibodies to cardiolipin are frequently found in patients with the
> serious disease systemic lupus erythematosus and also in individuals with other
> autoimmune diseases. The presence of elevated anti-cardiolipin antibodies is
> significantly associated with clots within the heart or blood vessels, in poor
> blood clotting, haemorrhage, bleeding into the skin, foetal loss and
> neurological conditions.
>
> The Purdue studies also found that vaccinated dogs were developing
> autoantibodies to their own collagen. About one quarter of all the protein in the body
> is collagen. Collagen provides structure to our bodies, protecting and
> supporting the softer tissues and connecting them with the skeleton. It is no wo
> nder that C anine Health Concern's 1997 study of 4,000 dogs showed a high
> number of dogs developing mobility problems shortly after they were vaccinated
> (noted in my 1997 book, What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines).
>
> Perhaps most worryingly, the Purdue studies found that the vaccinated dogs
> had developed autoantibodies to their own DNA. Did the alarm bells sound? Did
> the scientific community call a halt to the vaccination program? No. Instead,
> they stuck their fingers in the air, saying more research is needed to
> ascertain whether vaccines can cause genetic damage. Meanwhile, the study dogs
> were found good homes, but no long-term follow-up has been conducted. At around
> the same time, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
> Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why
> 160,000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their vaccine
> injection sites.(3) The fact that cats can get vaccine-induced cancer has been
> acknowledged by veterinary bodies around the world, and even the British
> Government acknowledged it through its Working Group charged with the task of
> looking into canine and feline vaccines(4) following pressure from Canine Health
> Concern. What do you imagine was the advice of the AVMA Task Force,
> veterinary bodies and governments? "Carry on vaccinating until we find out why
> vaccines are killing cats, and which cats are most likely to die."
>
>
> In America, in an attempt to mitigate the problem, they're vaccinating cats
> in the tail or leg so they can amputate when cancer appears. Great advice if
> it's not your cat amongst the hundreds of thousands on the "oops" list.
>
> But other species are okay - right? Wrong. In August 2003, the Journal of
> Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also
> develop vaccine-induced cancers at their injection sites.(5) We already know that
> vaccine-site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the
> Salk polio vaccine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the
> vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer. The monkey
> retrovirus SV40 keeps turning up in human cancer sites.
>
> It is also widely acknowledged that vaccines can cause a fast-acting,
> usually fatal, disease called autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). Without
> treatment, and frequently with treatment, individuals can die in agony within a
> matter of days. Merck, itself a multinational vaccine manufacturer, states in The
> Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that autoimmune haemolytic anaemia may
> be caused by modified live-virus vaccines, as do Tizard's Veterinary
> Immunology (4th edition) and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.(6) The
> British Government's Working Group, despite being staffed by vaccine-industry
> consultants wh o say they are independent, also acknowledged this fact.
> However, no one warns the pet owners before their animals are subjected to an
> unnecessary booster, and very few owners are told why after their pets die of AIHA.
>
>
> A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced Diseases
>
> We also found some worrying correlations between vaccine events and the
> onset of arthritis in our 1997 survey. Our concerns were compounded by research
> in the human field.
>
> The New England Journal of Medicine, for example, reported that it is
> possible to isolate the rubella virus from affected joints in children vaccinated
> against rubella. It also told of the isolation of viruses from the peripheral
> blood of women with prolonged arthritis following vaccination. (7)
>
> Then, in 2000, CHC's findings were confirmed by research which showed that
> polyarthritis and other diseases like amyloidosis, which affects organs in
> dogs, were linked to the combined vaccine given to dogs.(8) There is a huge body
> of research, despite the paucity of funding from the vaccine industry, to
> confirm that vaccines can cause a wide range of brain and central nervous
> system damage. Merck itself states in its Manual that vaccines (i.e., its own
> products) can cause encephalitis: brain inflammation/ damag e. In some cases,
> encephalitis involves lesions in the brain and throughout the central nervous
> system. Merck states that "examples are the encephalitides following measles,
> chickenpox, rubella, smallpox vaccination, vaccinia, and many other less well
> defined viral infections".
>
> When the dog owners who took part in the CHC survey reported that their dogs
> developed short attention spans, 73.1% of the dogs did so within three
> months of a vaccine event. The same percentage of dogs was diagnosed with epilepsy
> within three months of a shot (but usually within days). We also found that
> 72.5% of dogs that were considered by their owners to be nervous and of a
> worrying disposition, first exhibited these traits within the three-month
> post-vaccination period.
>
> I would like to add for the sake of Oliver, my friend who suffered from
> paralysed rear legs and death shortly after a vaccine shot, that "paresis" is
> listed in Merck's Manual as a symptom of encephalitis. This is defined as
> muscular weakness of a neural (brain) origin which involves partial or inco mplete
> paralysis, resulting from lesions at any level of the descending pathway from
> the brain. Hind limb paralysis is one of the potential consequences.
> Encephalitis, incidentally, is a disease that can manifest across the scale from
> mild to severe and can also cause sudden death.
>
> Organ failu re must also be suspected when it occurs shortly after a vaccine
> event. Dr Larry Glickman, who spearheaded the Purdue research into
> post-vaccination biochemical changes in dogs, wrote in a letter to Cavalier Spaniel
> breeder Bet Hargreaves:
>
> >> "Our ongoing studies of dogs show that following routine vaccination,
>> there is a significant rise in the level of antibodies dogs produce against
>> their own tissues. Some of these antibodies have been shown to target the
>> thyroid gland, connective tissue such as that found in the valves of the heart,
>> red blood cells, DNA, etc. I do believe that the heart conditions in Cavalier
>> King Charles Spaniels could be the end result of repeated immunisations by
>> vaccines containing tissue culture contaminants that cause a progressive
>> immune response directed at connective tissue in the heart valves. The clinical
>> manifestations would be more pronounced in dogs that have a genetic
>> predisposition [although] the findings should be generally applicable to all dogs
>> regardless of their breed."
>>
>
> I must mention here that Dr Glickman believes that vaccines are a necessary
> evil, but that safer vaccines need to be developed.
>
> Meanwhile, please join the queue to place your dog, cat, horse and child on
> the Russian roulette wheel because a scientist says you should.
>
> Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory Response
>
> The word "allergy" is synonymous with "sensitivity" and "inflammation" . It
> should, by rights, also be synonymous with the word "vaccination" . This is
> what vaccines do: they sensitise (render allergic)an individual in the process
> of forcing them to develop antibodies to fight a disease threat. In other
> words, as is acknowledged and accepted, as part of the vaccine process the body
> will respond with inflammation. This may be apparently temporary or it may be
> longstanding.
>
> Holistic doctors and veterinarians have known this for at least 100 years.
> They talk about a wide range of inflammatory or "-itis" diseases which arise
> shortly after a vaccine event. Vaccines, in fact, plunge many individuals
> into an allergic state. Again, this is a disorder that ranges from mild all the
> way through to the suddenly fatal. Anaphylactic shock is the culmination:
> it's where an individual has a massive allergic reaction to a vaccine and will
> die within minutes if adrenaline or its equivalent is not administered.
>
> There are some individuals who are genetically not well placed to withstand
> the vaccine challenge. These are the people (and animals are "people", too)
> who have inherited faulty B and T cell function. B and T cells are components
> within the immune system which ident ify foreign invaders and destroy them,
> and hold the invader in memory so that they cannot cause future harm. However,
> where inflammatory responses are concerned, the immune system overreacts and
> causes unwanted effects such as allergies and other inflammatory conditions.
>
>
>
> Merck warns in its Manual that patients with, or from families with, B
> and/or T cell immunodeficiencies should not receive live-virus vaccines due to the
> risk of severe or fatal infection. Elsewhere, it lists features of B and T
> cell immunodeficiencies as food allergies, inhalant allergies, eczema,
> dermatitis, neurological deterioration and heart disease. To translate, people with
> these conditions can die if they receive live-virus vaccines. Their immune
> systems are simply not competent enough to guarantee a healthy reaction to the
> viral assault from modified live-virus vaccines.
>
>
> Modified live-virus (MLV) vaccines replicate in the patient until an immune
> response is provoked. If a defence isn't stimulated, then the vacc ine
> continues to replicate until it gives the patient the very disease it was intending
> to prevent.
>
> Alternatively, a deranged immune response will lead to inflammatory
> conditions such as arthritis, pancreatitis, colitis, encephalitis and any number of
> autoimmune diseases such as cancer and leukaemia, where the body attacks its
> own cells.
>
> A new theory, stumbled upon by Open University student Gary Smith, explains
> what holistic practitioners have been saying for a very long time. Here is
> what a few of the holistic vets have said in relation to their patients:
> Dr Jean Dodds: "Many veterinarians trace the present problems with allergic
> and immunologic diseases to the introduction of MLV vaccines..." (9)
> Christina Chambreau, DVM: "Routine vaccinations are probably the worst thing
> that we do for our animals. They cause all types of illnesses, but not
> directly to where we would relate them definitely to be caused by the vaccine."
> (10)
>
> Martin Goldstein, DVM: "I think that vaccines...are leading killers of dogs
> and cats in America today."
>
> Dr Charles E. Loops, DVM: "Homoeopathic veterinarians an d other holistic
> practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than
> they provide benefits." (12)
>
> Mike Kohn, DVM: "In response to this [vaccine] violation, there have been
> increased autoimmune diseases (allergies being one component), epilepsy,
> neoplasia [tumours], as well as behavioural problems in small animals." (13)
>
> A Theory on Inflammation
> Gary Smith explains what observant healthcare practitioners have been saying
> for a very long time, but perhaps they've not understood why their
> observations led them to say it. His theory, incidentally, is causing a huge stir
> within the inner scientific sanctum. Some believe that his theory could lead to a
> cure for many diseases including cancer. For me, it explains why the vaccine
> process is inherently questionable.
>
> Gary was learning about inflammation as part of his studies when he struck
> upon a theory so extraordinary that it could have implications for the
> treatment of almost every inflammatory disease -- including Alzheimer's,
> Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis and even HIV and AIDS.
>
> Gary's theory questions the received wisdom that when a person gets ill, the
> inflammation that occurs around the=2 0infected area helps it to heal. He
> claims that, in reality, inflammation prevents the body from recognising a
> foreign substance and therefore serves as a hiding place for invaders. The
> inflammation occurs when at-risk cells produce receptors called All (known as
> angiotensin II type I receptors). He says that while At1 has a balancing receptor,
> At2, which is supposed to switch off the inflammation, in most diseases this
> does not happen.
>
> "Cancer has been described as the wound that never heals," he says. "All
> successful cancers are surrounded by inflammation. Commonly this is thought to
> be the body's reaction to try to fight the cancer, but this is not the case.
>
> "The inflammation is not the body trying to fight the infection. It is
> actually the virus or bacteria deliberately causing inflammation in order to hide
> from the immune system [author's emphasis]." (14)
>
> If Gary is right, then the inflammatory process so commonly stimulated by
> vaccines is not, as hitherto assumed, a necessarily acceptable sign. Instead,
> it could be a sign that the viral or bacterial component, or the adjuvant
> (which, containing foreign protein, is seen as an invader by the immune system),
> in the vaccine is winning by stealth.
>
> If Gary is correc t in believing that the inflammatory response is not
> protective but a sign that invasion is taking place under cover of darkness,
> vaccines are certainly not the friends we thought they were. They are undercover
> assassins working on behalf of the enemy, and vets and medical doctors are
> unwittingly acting as collaborators. Worse, we animal guardians and parents are
> actually paying doctors and vets to unwittingly betray our loved ones.
>
> Potentially, vaccines are the stealth bomb of the medical world. They are
> used to catapult invaders inside the castle walls where they can wreak havoc,
> with none of us any the wiser. So rather than experiencing frank viral
> diseases such as the 'flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs,
> parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway - but with
> cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self-attacking)
> diseases taking their place.
>
> The Final Insult
>
> All 27 veterinary schools in North America have changed their protocols for
> vaccinating dogs and cats along the following lines; (15) however, vets in
> practice are reluctant to listen to these changed protocols and official
> veterinary bodies in the UK and other countries are ignoring the following facts.
>
> Dogs' and cats' immune systems mature fully at six months. If modified
> live-virus vaccine is giver after six months of age, it produces immunity, which
> is good for the life of the pet. If another MLV vaccine is given a year later,
> the antibodies from the first vaccine neutralise the antigens of the second
> vaccine and there is little or no effect. The litre is no "boosted", nor are
> more memory cells induced.
>
> Not only are an nual boosters unnecessary, but they subject the pet to
> potential risks such as allergic reactions and immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia.
>
>
> In plain language, veterinary schools in America, plus the American
> Veterinary Medical Association, have looked at studies to show how long vaccines last
> and they have concluded and announced that annual vaccination is
> unnecessary. (16-19)
>
> Further, they have acknowledged that vaccines are not without harm. Dr Ron
> Schultz, head of pathobiology at Wisconsin University and a leading light in
> this field, has been saying this politely to his veterinary colleagues since
> the 1980s. I've been saying it for the past 12 years. But change is so long in
> coming and, in the meantime, hundreds of thousands of animals are dying
> every year - unnecessarily.
>
> The g ood news is that thousands of animal lovers (but not enough) have
> heard what we've been saying. Canine Health Concern members around the world use
> real food as Nature's supreme disease preventative, eschewing processed pet
> food, and minimise the vaccine risk. Some of us, myself included, have chosen
> not to vaccinate our pets at all. Our reward is healthy and long-lived dogs.
>
> It has taken but one paragraph to tell you the good and simple news. The
> gratitude I feel each day, when I embrace my healthy dogs, stretches from the
> centre of the Earth to the Universe and beyond.
>
> >> About the Author:
>> Catherine O'Driscoll runs Canine Health Concern which campaigns and also
>> delivers an educational program, the Foundation in Canine Healthcare. She is
>> author of Shock to the System (2005; see review this issue), the best-selling
>> book What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines (1997, 1998), and Who Killed
>> the Darling Buds of May? (1997; reviewed in NEXUS 4/04).
>>
>> She lives in Scotland with her partner, Rob Ellis, and three Golden
>> Retrievers, named Edward, Daniel and Gwinnie, and she lectures on canine health
>> around the world.
>>
>> For more information, contact Catherine O'Driscoll at Canine Health
>> Concern, PO Box 7533, Per th PH2 1AD, Scotland, UK, email catherine@carsegray .co.uk<about:blank>
>> , website www.canine- health-concern. org.uk.<about:blank>
>>
>> Shock to the System is available in the UK from CHC, and worldwide from
>> Dogwise at www.dogwise. com.<about:blank>
>>
> Endnotes
> 1. "Effects of Vaccination on the Endocrine and Immune Systems of Dogs,
> Phase II", Purdue University, November 1,1999, at
> www.homestea d.com/vonhapsbur g/haywardstudyon vaccines. html.<about:blank>
>
> 2. See www.vet.purdue. edu/epi/gdhstudy .htm.
>
> 3. See www.avma. org/vafstf/ default.asp.<about:blank>
>
> 4. Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) Working Group on Feline and Canine
> Vaccination, DEFRA, May 2001.
>
> 5. JVM Series A 50(6):286-291, August 2003.
>
> 6. Duval, D. and Giger,U. (1996). "Vaccine-Associated Immune-Mediated
> Hemolytic Anemia in the Dog", Journal of Ve terinary Internal Medicine 10:290-295.
>
> 7. New England Journal of Medicine, vol.313,1985.
> See also Clin Exp Rheumatol 20(6):767-71, Nov-Dec 2002.
>
> 8. Am Coll Vet Intern Med 14:381,2000.
>
> 9. Dodds, Jean W.,DVM, "Immune System and Disease Resistance", at
> www.critterc hat.net/immune. htm.<about:blank>
>
> 10. Wolf Clan magazine, April/May 1995.
>
> 11. Goldstein, Martin, The Nature of Animal Healing, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf,
> Inc., 1999.
>
> 12. Wolf Clan magazine, op. cit.
>
> 13. ibid.
>
> 14. Journal of Inflammation 1:3,2004, at www.journal- inflammation. com<about:blank>
> content/1/1/ 3.
>
> 15. Klingborg, D.J., Hustead, D.R. and Curry-Galvin, E. et al., "AVMA
> Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents' report on cat and dog vaccines",
> Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221(10):1401- 1407, November
> 15,2002,
> www.avma. org/policies/ vaccination. htm.<about:blank>
>
> 16. ibid.
>
> 17. Schultz, R.D., "Current and future canine and feline vaccination
> programs", Vet Med 93:233-254,1998.
>
> 18. Schultz, R.D., Ford, R.B., Olsen, J. and Scott, P., "Titer testing and
> vaccination: a new look at traditional practices", Vet Med 97:1-13, 2002
> (insert).
>
> 19. Twark, L. and Dodds, W.J., "Clinical application of serum parvovirus and
> distemper virus antibody liters for determining revaccination strategies in
> healthy dogs", J Am Vet Med Assoc 217:1021-1024, 2000.
>