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03-02-2008, 08:59 PM
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| BANNED! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kansas
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|  I live in Kansas and my vet has always given the first vaccination as an annual and the remaining ones as triannual. I asked the difference before and they said nothing that it was drawn from the same vial. I guess after the initial one and the first year booster the titer levels are high enough that it is only needed every three years. Interestingly enough though, the horses get yearly rabies vaccinations. |
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03-02-2008, 09:03 PM
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| Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: kansas
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|  Here the second rabies vaccination is given a year after the first and then every 2 years from then on and it is the same dosage and the same type.   |
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03-03-2008, 03:05 AM
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| YT Addict  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND
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|  puppylove, You have a good veterinarian! Were all Kansas dog owners so fortunate! He is absolutely correct about the 1 year rabies vaccine being the 3 year product with a different label. If you click on this link http://www.calmanimalcare.com/vaccine.htm , you will be taken to the Calm Animal Care website, which has posted Colorado State University's Small Animal Vaccination Protocol for its veterinary teaching hospital. In their protocol, it states: Even with rabies vaccines, the label may be misleading in that a three year duration of immunity product may also be labeled and sold as a one year duration of immunity product. |
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03-20-2008, 01:24 PM
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| YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND
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| 2nd Update KANSAS RABIES LAW--My Letter to Kay Johnson Below is a copy of the letter I faxed to Kay Johnson this morning. It appears that a vaccine revolution in Kansas has been triggered by the Wichita Eagle article http://www.kansas.com/news/story/344780.html. Dog owners are starting to organize, and Kay Johnson has received communications from as far away as India!! I'll keep you posted as developments unfold. Kris March 19, 2008 Ms. Kay Johnson, Director Environmental Services 1900 East 9th Street N. Wichita, KS 67214 RE: Wichita’s Annual Rabies Immunization Protocol for Dogs Greetings Ms. Johnson: It is unconscionable, unprofessional, and reckless for you, as the Director of Environmental Services, to rigidly adhere to a medically unsound annual rabies immunization protocol based on your desire to address a non-compliance issue among irresponsible dog owners. In effect, your policy punishes law-abiding citizens by requiring them to pay for medically unnecessary annual boosters. The rabies vaccine is the most potent of the veterinary vaccines and associated with significant adverse reactions -- it should not be given more often than is necessary to maintain immunity. Adverse reactions such as autoimmune diseases affecting the thyroid, joints, blood, eyes, skin, kidney, liver, bowel and central nervous system; anaphylactic shock; aggression; seizures; epilepsy; and fibrosarcomas at injection sites are linked to rabies vaccinations. The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians’ Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control, 2007 (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5603.pdf ) states that: “No laboratory or epidemiologic data exist to support the annual or biennial administration of 3- or 4-year vaccines following the initial series.” Many, if not most or all, annual rabies vaccines are the 3 year vaccine relabeled for annual use -- Colorado State University's Small Animal Vaccination Protocol for its veterinary teaching hospital states: “Even with rabies vaccines, the label may be misleading in that a three year duration of immunity product may also be labeled and sold as a one year duration of immunity product.” It is my personal opinion that you have set a rabies immunization policy which violates consumer protection laws by requiring pet owners (pet owners are consumers of veterinary services) to pay for annual rabies boosters which their dogs derive no benefit from, and which have the potential to cause harm. Under Article 8 “Unprofessional Conduct” of the Kansas Administrative Regulations, K.A.R. 70-8-1, one of the acts of unprofessional conduct listed by the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners (2A) is administering drugs “when the drugs are not necessary or required for the medical care of animals..” It appears that your annual rabies vaccination policy forces veterinarians into the uncomfortable position of violating their professional code of conduct by obliging them to overvaccinate dogs against rabies in order for their owners to comply with the law. The first entry under Appendix 2 of the 2003 American Animal Hospital Association’s Canine Vaccine Guidelines “Important Vaccination ‘Do’s and Don’ts” is “Do Not Vaccinate Needlessly – Don’t revaccinate more often than is needed….” They also caution: “Do Not Assume that Vaccines Cannot Harm a Patient – Vaccines are potent medically active agents and have the very real potential of producing adverse events.” The American Veterinary Medical Association's 2001 Principles of Vaccination states that “Unnecessary stimulation of the immune system does not result in enhanced disease resistance, and may increase the risk of adverse post-vaccination events.” They elaborate by reporting that: “Possible adverse events include failure to immunize, anaphylaxis, immunosuppression, autoimmune disorders, transient infections, and/or long-term infected carrier states." In the Mission Statement for the department of which you are the Director (http://www.wichita.gov/CityOffices/Environmental/), it lists as one of the core values, principles and operating philosophy by which you are supposed to be guided: “Integrity: We are committed to truth, accuracy, and fairness.” Your annual rabies immunization protocol fails to meet this standard of integrity. I strongly urge you to immediately revise Wichita’s misguided annual rabies immunization policy and adopt the national triennial standard. Sincerely, Kris L. Christine Founder, Co-Trustee THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND www.RabiesChallengeFund.org cc: Diane McCartney, Wichita Eagle Attorney General Stephen N. Six Consumer Protection Division, Attorney General’s Office |
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03-23-2008, 03:55 PM
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| YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: THE RABIES CHALLENGE FUND
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| Link to UPDATES on Kansas Rabies Law Updates on the Kansas Rabies Law issue will be posted on this thread: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...73#post1869673 Kris |
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