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Should Your Dog Get Yearly “Booster” Vaccinations?

You likely got a polio vaccine when you were a kid. 
Do you get a “booster” every year?
Yep, me neither.

Should your dog get vaccine boosters every year?
The small answer is NO.

The practice of pet vaccinating took hold in the 1950′s.

Before drugs for humans are brought onto market there’s an extensive amount of testing and regulation.

Pets?… well they’re generally tested UPON rather than tested for.

For the pet industry, there are advisory groups that “suggest” certain practices and protocols. But there’s very small in the way of regulation. While public attention has recently been shined on the commercial pet food industry, the practice of vaccinating remains honestly cloaked in mystery and secrecy.

The vaccination choices you make can dramatically effect you pets’ health and behavior.

Why Yearly Vaccination?

Vaccinations started with puppies… for Distemper and Leptospirosis.When they measured antibodies in a test group of puppies a year after vaccination, about one third of them didn’t have measurable antibodies in their blood for distemper. This can be right for several reasons, but the assumption made was the vaccine didn’t take.

In 1959, based on the assumption the vaccine didn’t take the first time, it was recommended to do yearly shots. At the time there weren’t any known risk. Of course they didn’t do any testing either. This practice went on relatively unquestioned for decades.

In 1992 Dr. Ron Schultz, a veterinary immunologist and professor at University of Wisconsin published an article with co-author Dr. Phillips in Current Veterinary Therapy. They called into question the practice of yearly vaccination arguing that: 
1. vaccines produce antibodies; 
2. antibodies once present interfere with subsequent vaccines.

Additionally, there have been studies by Dr. Schultz and numerous other Vets that show not only are yearly re-vaccinations unnecessary, but in fact they’re responsible for a dramatic increase in diseases our pets suffer today including:allergies, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, cancer, epilepsy, seizures, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis, colitis, kidney failure, liver failure, thyroid disease, parvovirus (yes, scientist believe that vaccinations really made parvo… it didn’t exist before the 1970′s), chronic skin problems, paralysis.

Also behavior problems such as aggression, suspiciousness, restlessness, aloofness and unaffectionate, clingy and separation anxiety, excessive barking, destructive behavior, tail chewing.

Yearly re-vaccination is no longer considered the standard of care due to  the efforts of Dr. Schultz and other Vets worldwide.

All 27 Vet Schools in the US have changed their recommendation, as have:

American Veterinary Medical Association
American Animal Hospital Association
World Small Animal Veterinary Association
Australian Veterinary Association

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) vaccination guidelines advise that duration of immunity is 7 years or longer, based on studies. Some organizations recommend every 3 years and some organizations recommend only once.

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