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Dangerous Vaccine Ingredients

A List Of Problematic Ingredients

A commonly overlooked aspect to vaccination is the potential risk it presents to the recipient. While vaccines can protect your dog from infectious disease, they are also capable of creating both acute reactions and chronic disease.

Here is a list of some of the problematic ingredients found in vaccines.

Bovine cow serum:
Extracted from cow skin. When injected causes connective tissue disorders, arthritis and lupus; also shortness of breath, low blood pressure, chest pain and skin reactions.

Sorbitol:
A synthetic sweetener that metabolizes very slowly and aggravates IBS and gastrointestinal issues.

Gelatin:
Derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. Injecting gelatin poses the risk of infection from synthetic growth hormones and BSE infectivity (mad cow disease).

Sodium chloride:
Raises blood pressure and inhibits muscle contraction and growth.

Thimerosal:
A neurotoxic mercury which causes autism and cancer: the average human flu vaccine contains 10 times more mercury than the EPA safety limit, so dogs who are vaccinated with multiple vaccines can receive 30 to 70 times the safety limit of mercury in one day.

"Thimerosal is the preservative in immunization shots, so anytime you get an immunization shot you are undergoing the same procedure that in the University Lab we used to give animals auto-immune disease---give a little tiny injection of mercury.” - Hal Huggins DDS

Formaldehyde:
Highly carcinogenic fluid used to embalm corpses. Ranked one of the most hazardous compounds to human health, it can cause liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, reproductive deformation, respiratory distress and cancer. formaldehyde has been known to fail to deactivate the virus the vaccine is intended to cure, thus enabling a live virus to infect the recipient.

Phenoxyethanol:
A glycol ether/chemical; highly toxic to the nervous system, kidneys, and liver. The FDA warns it "can cause shut down of the central nervous system (CNS), vomiting and contact dermatitis" when used topically.

Aluminum phosphate:
Greatly increases the toxicity of mercury, so the caution about minimum mercury tolerance is therefore severely underestimated. It can also cause degeneration of the brain and nervous system and neurological dysfunction, especially in developing puppies.

MSG:
Monosodium glutamate: When injected, it becomes a neurotoxin, causing CNS disorders and brain damage in children.
In the next section, we'll take a look at some studies showing the dangers of these ingredients.

Reports Of Vaccine Damage

A breakdown of studies

--In 1991, a lab at the University of Pennsylvania documented a connection between an alarming increase in fibrosarcomas (a type of cancerous tumor) and vaccinations in cats. As it turns out, the mandatory annual rabies vaccinations led to an inflammatory reaction under the skin, which later turned malignant.

--That same year, researchers at University of California at Davis confirmed that feline leukemia vaccines were also leading to sarcomas, even more so than the rabies vaccine. One in every thousand cats develop sarcoma every year.

--In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study that showed that dogs also develop vaccine induced cancers at their injection sites.

--In April 2010, an important scientific paper was published in the Journal of Virology. This paper showed how two teams of scientists in Japan and the UK isolated a feline retrovirus (called RD-114) in both feline and canine vaccines. This vaccine contamination came from vaccine seed stock, which is the disease shared amongst vaccine manufacturers internationally, from which they make their vaccines.

--A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might lead to life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. The results of the study showed that the vaccinated, but not the unvaccinated dogs, developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin, laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen.

--In a 1989 study, Bari et al found autoimmunity to collagen in 72.4% of dogs with rheumatoid arthritis, 88% of dogs with infective arthritis and 52% of dogs with osteoarthritis. Dogs with cruciate disease also showed significantly increased levels of autoantibodies. They also had higher levels of anti-collagen antibodies in the synovial fluid (the fluid lining that surrounds joints). The researchers concluded that anti-collagen complexes were present in all joint disorders.

--The link to cancer is known in human vaccines too. The Salk polio vaccine was reported to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer. Years later, the monkey retrovirus SV40 still appears in human cancer sites.

Dr Larry Glickman, who spearheaded the Purdue research, concludes: “Our ongoing studies of dogs show that following routine vaccination, there is a significant rise in the level of antibodies dogs produce against their own tissues. Some of these antibodies have been shown to target the thyroid gland, connective tissue such as that found in the valves of the heart, red blood cells, DNA, etc.”

It didn’t take many more findings like that before veterinary professionals began to consider vaccination as a risk factor in other serious autoimmune diseases. Vaccines were causing animals’ immune systems to turn against their own tissues, resulting in potentially fatal diseases such as autoimmune hemolytic anemia in dogs (AIHA). The vaccine manufacturer, Merck, states in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that AIHA may be caused by modified live-virus vaccines. This statement is also present in Tizard's Veterinary Immunology (4th edition) and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.

Additional studies show that delayed vaccine reactions are the cause of thyroid disease, allergies, arthritis, tumors and seizures in both cats and dogs.

Although they are being removed from human biologic products, Thimerosal, mercury and aluminum based adjuvants are still being allowed in veterinary vaccines. These products are all potential antigens that could abnormally stimulate the immune system, last a lifetime and cause chronic disease.

It’s not hard to figure out that the more we vaccinate, higher the risk of autoimmune and other diseases in our dogs.

In the next section, we’ll look at the specific health issues vaccines can cause.

Adverse Vaccine Reactions

Autoimmune Disorders

Autoimmune disorders are the most common diseases seen in dogs today. Half of all adult dogs will get cancer, while significantly larger numbers suffer from autoimmune disorders such as allergies, hypothyroidism, arthritis and more.

Here are the most common adverse events caused by vaccines, according to Dr Ronald Schultz PhD Dipl ACVIM:

COMMON REACTIONS

Lethargy
Hair Loss, hair color change at injection Site
Fever
Soreness
Stiffness
Refusal to eat
Conjunctivitis
Sneezing
Oral ulcers

MODERATE REACTIONS

Immunosupression
Behavioral changes
Vitiligo
Weight loss (Cachexia)
Reduced milk production
Lameness
Granulomas/Abscesses
Hives
Faciale Edema
Atopy
Respiratory disease
Allergic uveitis (Blue Eye)

SEVERE REACTIONS

Vaccine injection site sarcomas
Anaphylaxis
Arthritis, polyarthritis
HOD hypertrophy osteodystrophy
Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
Immune Mediated Thrombocytopenia (IMTP)
Hemolytic disease of the newborn (Neonatal Isoerythrolysis)
Thyroiditis
Glomerulonephritis
Disease or enhanced disease which the vaccine was designed to prevent
Myocarditis
Post vaccinal Encephalitis or polyneuritis
Seizures
Abortion, congenital anomalies, embryonic/fetal death, failure to conceive

These are the unfortunate risks pet owners assume when choosing to vaccinate. These risks make it critical to evaluate every vaccine that goes into our dogs, to make certain that no unnecessary vaccines are ever given.

In the next section, we’ll learn how foreign proteins in vaccines can cause allergies and autoimmune disease.