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Originally Posted by pstinard  If the guide isn't very long, you could take a screenshot of each PDF file page and post them. That's what I do with tables from research articles that don't copy and paste well. Or sometimes you can copy and paste the text out of the PDF file directly into a post, with a little massaging of the text to make it look good. I'll take a look and see what I can do. Whatever we do, we have to give a complete citation and credit to Dogs Naturally magazine. |
Okay, I took a look at the Dogs Naturally vaccination guidelines. It would have to be screenshotted to reproduce in its entirety. However, since Dr. Schultz helped write the AAHA and international vaccination guidelines that I link to above, and since the international vaccination guidelines include Dr. Schultz's data about the length of immunity that the vaccinations provide, I don't think posting this document would add anything to this conversation. Plus the Dogs Naturally guidelines are written in a somewhat sensationalistic manner and go beyond what Dr. Schultz wrote in his research papers. Dr. Schultz found that core vaccinations last for at least 5 to 7 years in MOST dogs, but not all dogs, and he hasn't extended that research to the entire lifetime of the dog. And I can't find anywhere where Dr. Schultz states that he gives the core vaccinations only once in a lifetime. Maybe he made a personal statement to that effect, but it was never published.
Also Dr. Schultz writes about the potential side effects of vaccinations in the documents I link to above, and they are not as common as the Dogs Naturally magazine implies. Some of the side effects are worse in cats, but not in dogs. (See the international guidelines cowritten by Dr. Schultz in 2015. Link posted above.)
The data on duration of immunity for vaccinations by challenge studies are the only data that really count. The duration by serology is done with titer testing, which is unreliable. Plus even the challenge studies did not show 100% effectiveness--they just show a trend. (Even Dogs Naturally says that it's effective in 95% of the cases, and even that may be overstating the data.) That's why the AAHA guidelines for core vaccines were not extended beyond three years--three years is to be on the safe side. The comments about big Pharma are just paranoid speculation with no factual basis. Since the Dogs Naturally PDF cherry picks the data and quotes it out of context, I would recommend not posting the PDF, unless you want me to pick it apart piece by piece
