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Originally Posted by Franceen  This is what I think: I am very anti vaccinations pet or human. I know of many people who have either lost or nearly lost their Yorkies through vaccination. I don't think vaccines work - I know they say that many diseases are under control now as a result of vaccination, but I don't agree. If you look at the charts that they use to show how diseases have gone down, you notice that these diseases had ALREADY gone down, due to a healthier population. I had my children vaccinated against all the usual things and theystill got a couple of the illnesses so they don't work anyway!
I think that as long as your dog is healthy it is unlikely to get any of these diseases and if by chance they do, we have excellent veterinary help for them nowadays. Vaccination is a money making scam by the drug companies. They make more money out of vaccines than out of any other medication. I was talked into having a flu vaccine once, and I was so ill afterwards that I would never have another one. The little girl next door had this new HPV vaccine recently and she was really ill for two weeks afterwards. The doctors or vets will always tell you that it is 'most unusual' to have a bad reaction - it isn't. Remember that doctors and vets get paid by the companies to promote vaccination to their patients. I know there are laws about having vaccinations, but some religious groups do not vaccinate - I think it is the Amish - and they are fine. I know one Yorkie owner who is not going abroad anymore, as she will not have her Yorkie vaccinated, so people are wising up and doing what they can to avoid them. |
USA is currently beginning to have a rash of whooping cough because parents won't vaccinate their children with the vaccine. It is a terrible way to lose a child - they get so fatigued from the constant, uncontrollable violent coughing, sweating profusely from the effort of their body going through with so many coughing spasms hour after hour for days. That is just one terrible aspect of this horrible, often fatal disease - and all because people won't vaccinate their children.
Small pox, an absolutely horrid disease, was essentially killed out due to vaccinations! Those who have lived through this disease say it was so bad that living is small consolation for what they had to endure. Imagine! Someone is alive and going to make it and they have just come through such a horror they can't even be glad - for a long, long time.
So vaccinations have saved this world and made the industrial age and much progress and today's lifestyles of endless huge cities crammed with people possible. Do some have side effects - yes! Do mostly they help mankind go forward and not revert to worldwide plagues of one kind or another and keep our lifestyles possible - also yes.