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Originally Posted by sportschick  O.K. Ladyjane, maybe you live in an area where rabies is prevalent. I do not. So, if drug companies didn't create a fear of rabies, then who did?? I had a dog when I was about 5 years old and extended family members had dogs. No one worried about rabies, nor did they get rabies. And that was a LONG time ago. Nor did we worry about all the other unvaccinated diseases and dogs lived a really long time.
Maybe you have had experience with rabies and people getting rabies from rabid dogs, but I haven't nor have I heard, read or dealt with rabid dogs in any of the cities I have lived in for the past almost 60 years.
Sorry, I don't agree with you. Just like I don't agree with the notion that we should all get flu shots, shingles shots, cervical cancer shots because we MIGHT get any of those.
I prefer to work on keeping myself and my dog healthy rather than sticking a needle into either one of us to ward of something that has a minimal chance of happening.
Again, please don't think I am trying to be insulting, I am known for my holistic leanings in my circle of life. I drive everyone crazy. ahahahah |
I am not referring to my personal experiences. I also don't think you are being insulting. You don't agree with me....and I simply do not agree with you.
As someone said, it is an open board with different opinions.
I am simply saying that the facts are out there and vaccines have cut down on rabies cases.
Also, I don't get all of those vaccines you are referring to and don't know what they have to do with the topic at hand.
This link will perhaps help you to understand why you have not heard of or feared rabies:
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/vet...ion_rabies.pdf
From that link:
By 1960, mandatory vaccination of dogs in the United States largely controlled canine and human rabies. This immune barrier has been established nationwide at a cost of over $300 million annually. Cats are also vaccinated for rabies but it is not mandatory and feline rabies is now more common than canine rabies in the United States. With the widespread vaccination of cats and dogs in the United States, most endemic human rabies is a result of contact with rabid wildlife, particularly bats.