Vaccinations: Are They The Cause?

Again, much of this could be avoided if we focused on prevention. One method that we do try to prevent illness in dogs is via vaccinations. However, many veterinarians, even conventional thinking ones, are now coming to the conclusion that vaccinations may be doing more harm than good.

Have you ever wondered how that dog that lives on a farm and never receives regular vaccinations can live his entire life without ever feeling achy joints, fever or a lack of an appetite?

Sure, many of us may believe that the owner must not be taking very good care of the dog if they don’t get him regular vaccinations, but the fact of the matter is that dog lives healthy and happy because he hasn't been injected with a vaccine and because his body is allowed to fight disease naturally. Vaccines may have tamed a variety of diseases in the past, but they are also the leading killers of dogs in the US today.

Many dogs have several ill effects after receiving a round of vaccines. For instance, they have a fever, they're stiff and lethargic and they may not eat. Some pets even go into anaphylactic shock, which can be fatal if they do not receive emergency treatment. Even up to two weeks after receiving vaccinations a dog can come down with side effects from vaccinations. These may include seizures, bleeding gums and even hemorrhages.

Although nobody can completely prove that vaccinations are the cause of many diseases in dogs, we can certainly see the link. The problem is often that too much weight is given to the power of vaccines. It's difficult to say that if you inject your dog with a vaccination for rabies now that when the dog is exposed to it nine months later that the vaccination itself keeps the dog from becoming ill or if the dog's body was just strong enough to fight it off and prevent infection.

Vaccinations are unique in that they actually contain a small amount of the infectious disease. The idea is that if we inject the dog with this small and seemingly harmless amount of disease that it will cause the immune system to flair up just enough to build up antibodies against it. In essence, we're trying to create a "memory" in the body of that disease so that when the disease is presented to our immune systems at some point in the future it will recognize it, create the necessary antibodies and then fight it off. We might come down with a slight fever while that occurs, but for the most part we won't be affected because the body was prepared.

The idea behind vaccinations was that by creating them and injecting the dog regularly with them, we are able to prevent some world wide epidemic of disease. However, we do not necessarily know that this will work and we know that vaccinations do not always work.

After the West Nile Virus epidemic that spread across the US in the 2000s, many horses were injected with West Nile Virus vaccinations. However, many of these horses came down with the disease not long after and many died. This is often the case of many vaccinations.

People are vaccinated, yet many animals still die. The reasoning behind this is not clear and many veterinarians have said that the animal must have had the disease with no symptoms prior to the vaccination, but nobody knows for sure if this is true or if the small amount of disease that was in the vaccination was enough to cause the animal to have a full blown attack. Either way, thousands of animals die from a disease they may have never caught from simply being vaccinated against it.

Show dogs of all animals are the ones that tend to suffer the most from vaccinations. This is because these dogs are often injected with vaccinations designed to prevent up to thirty diseases before they are even a year old.

The process of vaccinations begins two weeks after they are born and up to five months after that with a series of vaccinations in between. The problem is that many of these dogs are being vaccinated against diseases that don't exist anymore, such as infectious canine hepatitis – and we wonder why purebred dogs tend to have more health problems.

Additionally, many of the vaccinations that are being used today are no longer effective because the bacterium that causes the disease has changed drastically from the bacterium that the vaccine was designed to prevent. Bacteria changes over time, just as viruses do, and this means that the vaccine that was developed in the 70s to fight a disease is not necessarily going to be effective today, so why inject your pet with something that is only going to cause flu-like symptoms a week later? Although vaccines may not be the cause for the dog illness epidemic, it is certainly one factor.

So, after learning all of this information about the issues that vaccinations can cause, you're probably wondering whether or not you should vaccinate. When it comes down to it, this is definitely a personal decision. Holistic veterinarians avoid vaccinations at all costs, while your conventional veterinarian sees them as standard procedure.

Some vaccinations such as rabies may be required in your community by law and you definitely should not break the law. If you do opt to have your pet vaccinated, it would be wise to discuss the issue with your vet and determine which ones your dog would be okay without. This would depend on his home environment as well as his exposure to other dogs, but in most instances there are going to be several vaccines that he will not need and there is no point in injecting him with unnecessary vaccinations.

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