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Old 07-27-2013, 10:41 AM   #30
Lovetodream88
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My dog is in contact with other dogs, I take him to pet stores, he goes to dog parks sometimes, we go out a lot in public, he is outdoors all the time, in woods, etc, and I still feel perfectly safe with the vaccines he's been given and am not worried one bit.

The Lyme vaccine is kind of a joke IMO. Lyme tests are so inadequate in being able to help determine a definitive diagnosis anyway, so many false-positives and only 5% of dogs show symptoms. My Jackson was one of the 5%, he came up lame one day on his back leg, thought it was odd, did x-rays, etc, it ended up being a positive lymes test. With a few days worth of pain meds and doxycycline, he was 100% better the next day. For the past 3 years, his lyme test has come back negative and he's never had any other symptoms. Whether he's actually negative or not, who knows, but I still wouldn't touch the lyme vaccine with a ten-foot pole.

Lyme vaccines were removed from the human market because they failed to perform the proper safety studies prior to release and because of the numerous adverse events that followed the vaccine, some resulting even in death. There are other tick borne illnesses that are much more serious than Lyme, and we have no vaccines for them. So even if a very safe and effective Lyme vaccine came out, having your dog vaccinated for Lyme isn't going to lessen the need for tick prevention. And for humans, it's a worse disease than for dogs. Rarely is it as serious for a dog to have lymes as a human.

Reasons not to give it:

Revaccination

Lepto is another one. Lepto is really very rare, in the big spectrum of things. Less than 200 cases in the U.S. and half those in Hawaii. It's really common in tropical countries with heavy rainfall. The vaccine doesn't even protect against all the different strains of the lepto. Vets see more cases of reactions to lepto vaccine, than lepto itself.

Either way, I can't give lepto vaccine even if I wanted to (horrid reaction to it).
Lepto can be deadly (I watched a goat die of it) it also can be transmitted to humans. Whether the Lepto vaccine covers all of the strands or not you are much better off at least having protection for the major strands which it does cover. The vet who we went to about the goat which is not my vet said that a lot of cases or Lepto are not reported. Many farmers if an animal dies like one of there goats, cows or so on they normally take care of it and move on and don't involve a vet or anything else. Sense Callie goes to my mom's house where the goat lived who got Lepto and the goat never left the property I will vaccinate against it at least until 8 years old. Decided vaccines is not so cut and dry and black and white as some people like to make it. I absolutely do not take the decision lightly.
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