Well, Dog quack, thank you for posting this here because I think there are a number of issues we can discuss

All discussion will be in good spirit here Dogquack, the purpose is to ask quesrtions look for answers and then progress. I have no set opinions on things there are just so many things said in the world of homeopathy I am not 100% sure off.

One of the main tension points in my opinion is the difficulty of many to keep the philosophy of homeopathy different from the philosophy of conventional  medicine. I explain: In homeopathy the patient 'speaks' and the homeopath has to find out what symptoms need to be used to select the most appropriate treatment; so the challenge is to find what we need to select in the patient to come up with the most approprate prescription. Sometimes we get there from the first shot, often we don't and several px follow each other giving some relief until we finally get to the right remedy (or never get there). See some of the new schools  and the work of masi who go in this direction.(2nd tool you need is obviously a rule on how to assess the improvenet of the patient: Hering etc)

Not to run off into the whole vaccinosis tangent, but just some reading notes, links, and snippets to add.

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A great website - www.drpitcairn.com

A New Look at the Vaccine Question

Presented by Richard H. Pitcairn, D.V.M., Ph.D., at Minneapolis, 1993.

What we are going to do, in this presentation, is look at the question of vaccinations in four aspects. First, I want to tell you how my clinical experience led me to understand that vaccination was important, in a causative sense, in many of my cases. Second, we will look at the homeopathic perspective on chronic vaccine disease, or vaccinosis. Third, I wish to present some ideas on how vaccinosis may manifest in the dog and cat. Fourth, we will consider the question of the efficacy of vaccinations — do they really do what they are purported to do?
We are looking at this question, also, from my perspective as a practitioner of homeopathic medicine, not from the allopathic model that assumes vaccines to be useful and safe with occasional aberrations. Most of us are aware that vaccine-caused diseases — such as immune disorders, bleeding problems, tumor formation — are recently receiving attention from the allopathic community. However, the premise that these are exceptions to a basically safe procedure is not the same viewpoint as that which I am presenting to you today.

Introduction

My understanding of the importance of vaccination in animal diseases gradually developed over several years. I began homeopathic practice without considering vaccination as a factor of special importance. So, what I did was to consider the totality of symptoms in the case and choose the remedy which seemed to be the similimum based on that picture. This is classical homeopathic procedure and, ordinarily, one which would be effective. However, there were a significant number of cases that would not react curatively. Though there was improvement in some respects, nonetheless, a cure was not forthcoming. Eventually, through following the case over a period of time, the image of the remedy Thuya would emerge — which when administered would resolve the case which had been so difficult.
What, then, is the significance of Thuya as a remedy? Thuya is the most important remedy to be used for that state induced by vaccination. Other remedies noted to have this correspondence are Sulphur, Mezereum, Malandrinum, Sarsaparilla, Carcinosin, and Silicea among others. Malandrinum and Carcinosin are interesting remedies because both are nosodes — the former from horses with “grease heel” and the latter from a cancerous discharge from a human being. Thuya, Mezereum, and Sarsaparilla are vegetable remedies — Thuya from the Arbor vitae tree, Mezereum is known as Spurge olive, and Sarsaparilla an herbal medicine. Sulphur, the element and Silicea, which is silicon dioxide or quartz are mineral remedies. Thus we have representations from all the major remedy classes.
It gradually dawned on me that the underlying problem in some of my difficult cases was a state of illness that had been induced by vaccination. So, rather than simply use a totality of symptoms to choose my prescription, I found it more effective to emphasize the rubric “Vaccination, effects of” almost to the exclusion of other remedies. In this way, I was able to make progress in some very frustrating clinical situations.
Let me give you a few recent cases that demonstrate the usefulness of Thuya.
Case 1: Jack: (Stanford) ten month old DSH, male cat. Ill since first obtained as a stray kitten about 12 weeks old. Symptoms primarily fever, diarrhea and vomiting. Associated symptoms were red gums, retained baby teeth, offensive breath, thirst, swollen cervical lymph nodes, craving for strange foods (cinnamon rolls, persimmons), blood at end of penis, licking genitals, dragging bottom on floor, and very strong-smelling urine. When neutered at age seven months, he developed fever, fear of noise, trembling, warm head, dilated pupils, pale gums with red line along the teeth, loss of appetite, craving for plastic, cardboard boxes and house plants, extraordinary hysterical fear on being allowed outside, dry stools with constipation, prolapsed third eyelids, crying in pain before passing a fluid stool, and vomiting any water drunk. Several homeopathic remedies were given during this illness with sometimes definite improvement, almost to normal. However, the condition always recurred and the previous remedy would then not be effective. Based on the symptoms of chronic diarrhea of offensive stools, with lots of gas causing sputtering sounding stool, and crying in pain before urinating — this cat was given Thuya 30C. Client reported almost immediate improvement with return to “97% himself” within a few hours. He has continued to be free of most of these symptoms since this one treatment with Thuya.
Case 2: Jerri, (Hall) 3 and 1/2 year old mixed chow dog. Afflicted with sarcoptic mange and recurrent ear infections for 2 and 1/2 years. Treated allopathically without resolution of the problem (Mitaban and Paramine dips, immune system stimulants, bacterial extracts, etc.). Skin condition characterized by itching, hair loss, thickened dark skin, red irritated skin involving primarily the feet, lower legs, around the eyes, abdomen, top of the head, inside both ears. Patient has also become timid & cautious with the other dogs. Condition markedly ameliorated by a dose of Thuya 1M with regrowth of hair, normalization of appearance of the skin, reduction of ear inflammation, and return of normal personality and behavior. Condition recurred, in milder form, one year later (after use of homeopathic nosodes for disease protection) and was resolved by one dose of Thuya 10M.
Case 3: Monster, (Hilliard) 7 year old DSH, tiger stripe. Chronic diarrhea for 1 and 1/2 years with 1-3 bowel movements a day. Very offensive diarrhea with a lot of gas being passed. Thuya 200C, one dose, resulted in marked improvement, with a perfectly formed stool within three weeks.
Case 4: Mei-Ling: (Coffin)six months old, female charpei dog imported to Brazil from Kansas. Never well since first obtained, now is diagnosed with a seborrhea (biopsy) and skin fungal infection. The skin is dark, itchy, with red, scaly spots. These lesions spread rapidly over most of the body. Client says the puppy was normal until receiving “puppy shots”. She began to lose hair all over, especially from flanks and front legs and on the back near the tail. Treated with oral anti-fungal drug and two ointments without improvement. No effect from treatment with Sulfur 6X; temporary improvement with Rhus toxicodendron 200; rapid recovery after Thuya 200. Change for the better was very rapid with hair growing in faster than ever seen before with this dog. Another dose of Thuya 200 needed three months later, after exposure to plaster and chemicals used in refinishing a room. Other remedies were needed, months later, for some lingering minor symptoms, but Thuya clearly turned this case around.
You can see from these cases that progress was dependent on use of Thuya, the anti-vaccine remedy. Though this was not necessarily the final remedy for these patients, it seemed to be a necessary prescription. It is as if vaccinations have the ability to block response to a constitutional remedy, an obstacle that must be dealt with before cure can be underway.

Homeopathic Discovery of Vaccinosis

Of course, this “discovery”, which was actually more the re-invention of the wheel, prompted me to search the homeopathic literature for information about the relation of vaccination to disease. The most important source on this phenomenon is the book Vaccinosis and Its Cure by Thuja with Remarks on Homeoprophylaxis by J. Compton Burnett, M.D. The first edition of this book appeared in London in March 1884.
It is here that vaccination is first clearly described as a chronic disease. The effect of vaccination, besides the physical effects of stimulating an antibody response, is to establish a chronic disease — one that is long-lasting, indeed, in some cases a life-long, condition. Burnett refers to the chronic disease that results from vaccination by the name Vaccinosis. So, we will adhere, in this discussion, to the same convention. Vaccinosis is to be understood as the disturbance of the vital force by vaccination that results in mental, emotional, and physical changes that can, in some cases, be a permanent condition.
Burnett gives several cases that demonstrate this. Several of them are in infants and children, showing the profound effects of vaccination on the growing organism. However, I wish to emphasize the long-standing effects of vaccination so will mention a couple of example cases to you.
Case 1: A woman, of about age 50, suffered greatly for 20 years from a condition of terrible pain in the eyes. The attacks of pain were so severe, that she would be confined to bed for days at a time and for some periods as long as six weeks. In spite of many examinations and treatments by allopathic doctors, no relief was forthcoming. The patient was confined to a darkened room, her head bound, and crying from the pain. These attacks were always preceded by what seemed to be “flu” and the frequency of these episodes was such that she was confined to her room about half of every year.
As this patient had been extensively vaccinated, the use of Thuya as a remedy was used by Burnett. Thuya, has a type of cephalgia similar to that described by the patient and, indeed, use of Thuya 30C successfully resolved the condition in six weeks. A follow-up in one year showed that the cure held.
Case 2: A young woman, 19 years of age, suffered from severe headaches for nine years. The attacks were characterized by a pain in the back of the head as if it were being squeezed in a vice with throbbing of the head as if it would burst. These attacks occurred once or twice a week. Associated symptoms were habitual constipation, poor appetite, a tendency towards styes, eruption of boils, cold feet, easily made motion-sick, tendency to faint, skin sensitive to wind which become rough with cracks forming in the lips. The patient had been vaccinated against smallpox at three months of age, seven years of age, and again at fourteen years. In spite of this vaccination, she had actually come down with smallpox at age 10!
She was treated with Thuya, in low potency, over a  period of several months and was eventually cured of her symptoms. A two year follow-up confirmed the stability of the cure.
Many other cases are described in Burnett’s little book. Lest you think that only head pain is the outcome of vaccinosis, let me hasten to give brief descriptions of some of the others.

• Wasting away (marasmus) of an infant being nursed by a recently vaccinated mother.
• Several cases of skin eruptions, pimples, ringworm.
• Enlarged cervical lymphatic glands and unhealthy lungs tending towards tuberculosis.
• Loss of hair, in patches, on the face of men.
• Unusual susceptibility to influenza and general ill-health.
• Facial acne and nasal dermatitis.
• Diseased finger-nails.
• Chronic vertigo.
• Paralysis and muscular weakness.
• Very painful spine, with weakness, inflammation, twitchings, etc.
• Hand cramps and enlargement of the spleen.
• Insufficient growth in children with paralysis on one-half of the face.

These cases and others, in subsequent books, began to present to the homeopathic community the nature of vaccinosis. Indeed, it was possible, from these cases for Burnett to declare vaccinosis a variant of the sycosis miasm. As you will already know, sycosis is characterized by affections of the skin, the lymphatics, the immune system, susceptibility to fungal infections, susceptibility to cold, damp weather, arthritis, affections of the blood, and many other symptoms of this sort. Most importantly, it is typical of the sycotic miasm, and therefore of vaccinosis, to develop growths of all types — cysts, polyps, warts, tumors and cancers.
Some of Burnett’s other books, especially Tumors of the Breast and their Treatment and Cure by Medicines, Curability of Tumors by Medicines, and Delicate, Backward, Puny and Stunted Children especially bring out some of the variety inherent in vaccinosis and the tremendous damage it can do once established.
One more thing I will mention before leaving the subject of Burnett’s work. This is his interesting observation that the person that is most susceptible to contracting the disease being vaccinated against is more likely to die when they do come in contact with it. In other words, rather than protecting some individuals as planned, it actually makes them more susceptible. The vaccination having created a chronic disease ahead of time, can predispose the patient to a more serious natural illness which combines with the established vaccinosis. As we shall see later in this presentation, there is evidence that this is what has happened in vaccinated populations.
Does this extend our understanding of vaccinosis? We can expand our definition to say that vaccinosis is the establishment of, instead of the acute natural disease, a chronic condition which now has the time to develop a multitude of manifestations not ordinarily seen. Another way of saying this is that the process of laboratory modification of a viral disease to make a vaccination strain is the conversion of the disease from acute to chronic. The virus has been changed so that its natural tendency to arouse a strong response it gone. Instead it can be introduced into the body in a form that does not elicit much of a reaction. The result is the establishment of a chronic disease that has never been seen before in clinical practice.
To illustrate what I mean by this, I would like to briefly discuss aspects of three of these vaccine diseases — chronic canine distemper, chronic rabies, and chronic feline panleukopenia.

Chronic Canine Distemper

Canine distemper, a very old disease of dogs, is well known in its clinical manifestation. According to The Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals,[1] the major symptoms are:

• Watery discharge from eyes and nose.
• Conjunctivitis, with discharge (eventually purulent).
• Vomiting and diarrhea, loss of appetite.
• Watery feces, mixed with mucous, offensive and often bloody feces; intense malaise, loss of weight, and death.
• Severe, fetid diarrhea.
• Spasms, fits, epileptiform seizures.
• Paralysis.
• Eruption around the mouth where hair meets the naked skin of the lips.
• Swelling of the feet, red footpads.
• Pneumonia.
• Eruptions on the skin of pustules, on the abdomen, inside the thighs, and elsewhere.
• Emaciation.

What I am suggesting to you is that, because of repeated vaccination, the acute disease of canine distemper has changed form to appear as a variety of chronic diseases. In the table below, the acute form of the disease (on the left) has become the chronic (or new acute) disease on the right:

Watery discharge of eyes and nose.	Tendency for  watery fluid to drip from the nose.
Conjunctivitis.	Chronic conjunctivitis, eye discharge. Entropion.
Vomiting, diarrhea and loss of appetite.	Chronic gastritis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, appetite disorders.
Watery feces, mixed with mucous, offensive and often bloody feces; intense malaise, loss of weight, and death. Severe, fetid diarrhea.	Parvovirus. Recurrent diarrhea. Sensitivity to foods with resultant diarrhea.
Spasms, fits, epileptiform seizures. Paralysis.	Epilepsy; rear leg paralysis. Spondylitis.
Eruption around the mouth where hair meets the naked skin of the lips.	Lip fold dermatitis. Allergies.
Swelling of the feet, red footpads.	Habit of licking the feet; eruptions between the toes, inflammation and swelling of the toes & bottoms of the feet; interdigital dermatitis. Allergies.
Pneumonia.	Kennel cough. Chronic bronchitis.
Eruptions on the skin of pustules — on the abdomen, inside the thighs, and elsewhere.	Chronic skin eruptions involving abdomen, inside thighs, and generally lower half of the body. Allergies.
Emaciation.	Failure to thrive; abnormally thin condition.

What I am suggesting here is that the original disease, Distemper, has been, for the most part, replaced by Distemper Vaccinosis, a chronic disease of great variety. This chronic disease also creates a susceptibility to new acute forms of distemper like parvovirus. Because by its nature, chronic disease is more developed than an acute disease, the many ramifications of this condition have been given new names from the mistaken idea that they are different and distinct diseases.

Chronic Rabies

Let’s now consider Rabies in the same way. Some of the symptoms of rabies are known to be (similar for dogs and cats)[2],[3]:

• Restlessness, uneasiness, apprehensiveness and a developing viciousness. This is most apt to be manifested toward strangers.
• Dogs normally affectionate may hide away and shun company.
• Dogs normally independent may become unusually attentive and affectionate (an expression of anxiety).
• Desire to travel away from home for long distances.
• If restrained, it will chew viciously on metal chains or anything that is used to restrain or confine it.
• The dog may inflict severe bite wounds on itself.
• Strange cries and hoarse howls (partial paralysis of the vocal cords).
• No interest in food.
• Unable to swallow because of paralysis of muscles of deglutition.
• Eyes staring with dilation of the pupils.
• Unable to close the eyes; cornea becomes dry and dull.
• Hanging down of the lower jaw.
• Swallows pieces of wood, stones, its own fecal material and other foreign bodies.
• Destruction of blankets, towels, clothing.
• Convulsive seizures.
• Muscular incoordination.
• Agonizing pain and constriction in the throat; spasms of the throat.
• Increased sexual desire; satyriasis, nymphomania; attempted rape.
• Inflammation of the heart muscle; disturbed heart function, irregular rhythm, heart rate too slow or too fast; heart failure.
• Periods of excitement and jerky breathing; cluster breathing.

Now let’s consider how this acute disease has, through vaccination, become a variety of “new” ailments:

Restlessness, uneasiness, apprehensiveness and a developing viciousness. This is most apt to be manifested toward strangers.	Restless nature; suspicious of others, unfriendly to other dogs, vicious to other animals, desire to kill. Aggression and mistrust of strangers, esp. people in uniforms.
Dogs normally affectionate may hide away and shun company.	Change of behavior to aloofness; from affectionate to unaffectionate.
Dogs normally independent may become unusually attentive and affectionate.	Clingy behavior, fear to be left alone. Follows owner from room to room. Wants physical contact.
Desire to travel away from home for long distances.	Tendency to escape confinement and to roam.
If restrained, it will chew viciously on metal chains or anything that is used to restrain or confine it.	Attempt at restraint results in hysterical, violent behavior. Resistance can be so extreme as to cause self-injury.
The dog may inflict severe bite wounds on itself.	Self-mutilation; tail-chewing, chewing off toes or a foot (seen in severe allergic or nervous diseases).
Strange cries and hoarse howls (partial paralysis of the vocal cords).	Changed voice; hoarseness. Excessive tendency to bark or be vocal.
No interest in food.	Chronic poor appetite; very particular about food; finicky.
Unable to swallow because of paralysis of muscles of deglutition. Hanging down of the lower jaw.	Paralysis (or partial paralysis) of mouth, tongue or throat; sloppy eaters or drinkers; tendency to drool or lose saliva.
Eyes staring with dilation of the pupils.	Loss of sight, cataract formation, visual defects.
Unable to close the eyes; cornea becomes dry and dull.	Keratitis sicca, “dry eye”.
Swallows pieces of wood, stones, its own fecal material and other foreign bodies.	Habit of eating wood, stones, sticks, earth. Excessive desire to eat stool (their own or other animals).
Destruction of blankets, towels, clothing.	Destructive behavior and shredding of blankets or bedding.
Convulsive seizures. Muscular incoordination.	Seizures, epilepsy, chorea, twitches, etc. Ataxia.
Agonizing pain and constriction in the throat; spasms of the throat.	Psychomotor seizure syndrome.
Increased sexual desire; satyriasis, nymphomania; attempted rape.	Increased sexual desire, even in neutered males; humping; sexual aggression.
Inflammation of the heart muscle; disturbed heart function, irregular rhythm, heart rate too slow or too fast; heart failure.	Irregular pulse; heart failure.
Periods of excitement and jerky breathing; cluster breathing.	“Reverse” sneezing attacks.

These symptoms of rabies vaccinosis are not familiar to us because, until vaccines were widely employed, we never saw rabies in a chronic form in our patients. Even now, these effects of rabies’ vaccination are generally unrecognized even though follow-up of changes in dog temperaments and physical condition after rabies’ vaccination will readily confirm this.

Chronic Feline Panleukopenia

The third, and final, disease we are to consider is Feline Panleukopenia. The symptoms of this dread disease are:[4]

• Lassitude.
• Inappetance.
• Fever.
• Rough, unkempt coat.
• Indifference to owner or surroundings.
• Rapid weight loss.
• Dehydration.
• Vomiting.
• Profuse, watery, diarrhea (often blood-tinged).
• Mucopurulent discharges from the eyes and nose.

The changes to a chronic disease condition are shown in this table:

Lassitude; indifference to owner or surroundings.	Lazy cats, not active, lie around most of the time.
Inappetance.	Appetite problems, finicky, not wanting to eat well.
Fever.	Chronic fever, for weeks, with few symptoms except for cervical gland enlargements.
Rough, unkempt coat.	Poor groomers (or cats that never groom).
Dehydration.	Chronic dehydration leading to cystitis and bladder calculus formation; chronic interstitial nephritis.
Rapid weight loss.	Emaciation; thin, “skeletal” cats. Hyperthyroidism.
Vomiting; profuse, watery, diarrhea (often blood-tinged).	Inflammatory bowel disease.
Mucopurulent discharges from the eyes and nose.	Chronic upper respiratory infections; sinusitis.

Feline leukemia, in the primary stage, is characterized by fever, malaise, anorexia, lymphadenopathy, leukopenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.[5] Thus, in many ways, chronic panleukopenia looks like feline leukemia. It is like the acute syndrome of panleukopenia stretched out in time to so that it becomes chronic.
Probably, by this point, many of you are wondering what I can mean about panleukopenia (or any of these diseases) becoming a chronic disease like feline leukemia. I am speaking from the homeopathic perspective that understands that every being, including viruses, have a vital force. This vital force, which is the life force or chi, is what is the energetic pattern that develops and maintains the physical form. It is a downstream flow of information from the energetic to the physical. When this physical aspect is changed or blocked, as happens when the chronic vaccine disease is established, then the life force behind the disease manifests itself in a different way. These new forms, we give new names. We haven’t really eliminated anything by vaccination, we have just changed its shape.
I picked these three diseases for discussion because of their importance to dogs and cats who have suffered from them for thousands of years. They would seem to have a susceptibility to these diseases that has never been satisfied. Now, with the extension of these diseases into a chronic form with vaccination, the influence of these diseases on the dog and cat species has never been so great as today.

Are Vaccines Effective?

The last thing I want to consider in this discussion is the larger question — are vaccines really effective? To answer this question is more difficult than it would seem at first. We don’t really have a system for tabulating the incidence of the common diseases of dogs and cats, for example. There are figures for some of the reportable diseases of livestock, but the rapid turnover of these animals makes long term studies almost impossible. However, what we can do is kind of a reverse process of what we usually find ourselves doing as veterinarians. Instead of using animals to study human disease, let’s use human disease to answer our question. There are statistics for the common human diseases and we can use these to answer our question about the efficacy of vaccinations.

Smallpox

Let’s start our evaluation with smallpox which was the disease for which Jenner developed his method of vaccination in 1796.[6]
There are two things of interest around this time of Jenner’s early work. First is that James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy initially vaccinated by Jenner in 1796, was re-vaccinated 20 times, and died at the age of twenty. Second, Jenner’s own son, who was also vaccinated more than once, died at the age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition that some researchers have linked to the smallpox vaccine. It is apparent that from the beginning, doctors were confused about the question of vaccine protection. They thought that because the specific syndrome of smallpox did not appear that the vaccine was effective. They did not see that the overall level of health of the boys receiving the vaccine was equally an indicator of vaccine effectiveness.
Another thing of importance to understand in evaluating the significance of smallpox vaccination is that smallpox and other communicable diseases were declining before vaccination programs were enforced. This may be attributed to the sanitation reforms and nutritional teachings instituted around the mid-1800’s as much as to the vaccination programs as these other communicable diseases, for which there was no vaccination, were also declining at the same rate.
The interesting thing, however, is that the incidence of smallpox actually increased once vaccination programs were instituted. In Jenner’s time, there were only a few hundred cases of smallpox in England. After more than fifteen years of mandatory vaccinations, in 1870 and 1871 alone more than 23,000 people died from the disease. Later, in Japan, nearly 29,000 people died in just seven years under a stringent compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination program.
This increase in smallpox deaths was associated with a noticeable lack of protection — not the best combination of events. For example, in Germany, over 124,000 people died of smallpox during the same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. Additionally, (unaltered) hospital records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox cases occurred after the individual was vaccinated.
This lack of efficacy and increase in disease incidence, while other communicable diseases were declining, led to the refusal of smallpox vaccination by some countries. This resulted in a drop of the incidence of the disease that is quite remarkable. In Australia, when two children died from their smallpox shots, the government terminated compulsory vaccinations. As a result, smallpox virtually disappeared in that country (three cases in fifteen years). When England began to reject vaccination, then the incidence of smallpox deaths decreased accordingly.[7] (slide 1) Note: The slides are not yet posted here—a future project.

Polio

This is another disease for which people assume that vaccination has made a great difference in incidence. However, let’s look more closely at the facts.[8] From 1923 to 1953, before the Salk killed-virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in the United States and England had already declined on its own by 47% and 55% respectively. Statistics show a similar decline in other European countries as well.[9]  (slide 2)
When the vaccine became available, many European countries questioned its effectiveness and refused to systematically inoculate their citizens. Yet, polio epidemics also ended in these countries as well.
Additionally, as with smallpox vaccine, the number of reported cases of polio following mass inoculations with

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Holistic Animal Health: Vaccinosis
Health Hazard of Routine Vaccination: placing our animals at risk
Most pet owners aren't aware of the dangers in animal vaccinations that have been discovered in recent years. The major veterinary associations now agree that vaccinations can trigger all sorts of maladies, from allergies to cancer - but most pet caretakers (and many veterinarians, it seems) haven't gotten the word. "With vaccines that are repeated year after year, the frequency and severity of these side-effects in our pets has increased dramatically. Most of the problems involve the immune system. After all, the immune system is what vaccines are designed to stimulate. But they do so in a very unnatural way that can overwhelm and confuse the immune system." Dr. Donna Starita Mehan DVM

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Dr. Ronald D. Schultz, Ph.D..- "Annual revaccination provides no benefit and may increase the risk for adverse reactions. The percentage of vaccinated animals (those vaccinated only as puppies) protected from clinical disease after challenge with canine distemper virus, canine parvovirus and canine adenovirus in the study was greater than 95%." Current and Future Canine and Feline Vaccination Programs. Dr. Ronald Schultz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison. Schultz, R.D. - Current and Future Canine and Feline Vaccination Programs. Vet Med 3: No. 3, 233-254, 1998    more

Dr. Charles E Loops DVM - "The first thing that must change with routine vaccinations is the myth that vaccines are not harmful. Veterinarians and animal guardians have to come to realise that they are not protecting animals from disease by annual vaccinations, but in fact, are destroying the health and immune systems of these same animals they love and care for Homeopathic veterinarians and other holistic practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than they provide benefits. Vaccinations represent a major assault on the body's immune system.... Vaccine induced chronic diseases range from life-threatening conditions such as auto-immune crises to conditions destroying the quality of life of an animal as in chronic skin allergies." more Dr. Dee Blanco, D.V.M - "You take healthy animals and often very quickly after you vaccinate, you can see simple things like itching of the skin or excessive licking of the paws, sometimes even with no eruptions and licking of the air. We see a lot of epilepsy/seizure, often after a rabies vaccination. Or dogs or cats can become aggressive for several days. Frequently, you'll see urinary tract infections in cats, often within three months after their [annual] vaccination. If you step back, open your mind and heart, you'll start to see patterns of illness post-vaccination." (veterinarians have also observed vaccinosis symptom of severe inflammation of the tail)

Excessive licking of the paws

Veterinarians; what they say about routine animal vaccination PETITION: Exempt Dogs and Cats When Rabies Vaccinations Will Harm Them Vaccine reaction: tail eruption (photos) Prevaccination Protection  Dr. Falconer D.V.M. explains how to protect your animal from vaccines damage Rabbie Vaccination Challenge Project Treatment to help animals recover from bad vaccine reaction Testimonials of bad vaccine reaction in animals and subsequent death Feline Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) research from Colorado State University suggests a link between vaccination for feline distemper (panleukopenia) and the development of chronic renal failure.

Vaccine Alternative Testing a dog’s serum antibody titers can prevent overvaccinating Vaccinosis and inflammatory bowel disease: epidemic of pet inflammatory bowel disease Lyme's disease vaccination Many veterinary schools and major veterinary centers do not recommend the vaccine for the same concern regarding potential side effects. Veterinary Vaccine Injury Act It is imperative that veterinarians educate their clients concerning the associated risks of vaccines. Please sign the petition. The Rabies Challenge Study - Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, will be conducting the rabies challenge studies. Donations are needed!  Vaccines, Infectious Diseases and the Canine Immune System: Dog's recover from Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Dr Andrew Jones, DVM answers to some very common Vaccine Questions

Dr. Pat Bradley, DVM  -  "In a general and frightening context, I see the overall health and longevity of animals deteriorating. The bodies of most animals have a tremendous capacity to detoxify poisons, but they do have a limit. I think we often exceed that limit and overwhelm the body's immune system function with toxins from vaccines. The most common problems I see that are directly related to vaccines on a day to day basis are ear or skin conditions, such as chronic discharges and itching. I also see behavior problems such as fearfulness or aggression. Often guardians will report that these begin shortly after vaccination and are exacerbated with every vaccine."  Dr. Dennis Macy DVM - "We should not allow politics and tradition or greed to enter the decision (on frequency of vaccination).

A great number of studies have shown that when you vaccinate an animal, the body's inflammatory cytokines not only increase dramatically, but so do the brain's inflammatory chemicals. Many pet guardians observe changes in a pet subsequent to the first series of animal vaccinations - lethargy, vomiting, itching, ear or eye discharge, to name but a few. The veterinarian will reassure you that these symptoms are normal. Sadly, for some companion animals, these symptoms worsen and lead to death. For other pets, they lead to a lifetime of health problems.

Dog's tail - (photographs courtesy of Sherri Regalbuto)

My German Shepherd dog Shasta, had a similar looking tail. It was a direct result of  adverse reaction to vaccines. The inflammed area of the tail would swell up with fluid and became extremely sensitive, painful and very itchy. Poor Shasta would constantly bite and lick the area. Correctly prescribed homeopathic remedies can often undue the damage caused by vaccines.  Homeopathy  is noted for its success to antidote or remove the toxic effects of vaccines and to re-establish balance in the organism and restore health. Certain homeopathic remedies taken after vaccination can minimize  vaccine damage. A professional homeopathic vet should be consulted for more information. Dr. Falconer DVM also uses Transfer Factor to modulate/boost animal's  immune system and protect against vaccination adverse reaction. Some people have found that marine phytoplankton is also effective in improving their animals' overall health. 

My other German Shepherd dog Kuuma had a different reaction to vaccines. Soon after I rescued Kuuma, I noticed an inflammed spot 2 or 3 inches in diameter on his left thigh which he constantly licked. That was precisely the spot where he had been vaccinated. I treated him with homeoapthic remedies and rubbed neem oil on the wound. Whithin a few weeks the area was healed. A few years later, Kuuma experienced a bizarre symptom of sudden and unexplained strange behavior. One afternoon, he became restless and started crying in pain anytime I would just walk by him, as though the movement of the air was hurting him ?!?!?  That same morning, we had an hour long walk in the hills and he was perfectly fine. At home, he laid by my side all day, sleeping peacefully.

The symptoms occured suddenly by mid-afternoon when he woke up. When I tried to pet him, he would yelp as if he had been hit.  He was in constant pain, yet he had no injury and no fever. I suspected vaccine reaction and tried numerous homeopathic remedies such as Silica, Thuja, as well as Rhus Tox and Arsenicum for his restless behavior, but none helped. That night, poor Kuuma could barely sleep and cried almost all the time. The next day, I gave him a single dose of the homeopathic (nosode) remedy Lyssin (hydrophobinum) 200 C and within hours, I saw major improvement. For the first time in 18 hours he was able to sleep again and wouldn't yelp in pain everytime I walked by him. If I had left this dog with a dog sitter or in a boarding place, I would have been convinced that someone had mistreated him severely. Kuuma is a very healthy, fearless  high spirited dog. I had never seen him looking so pittyful and miserable before. Lyssin is available from Dr. Charles Loops DVM   --  (A few hours after giving him Lyssin, I also gave him a single dose of Lachesis 30 C when I observed that sleep agravated his symptoms)

Originally posted by edebeukelaer   It is my belief that if we can prove what can be achieved with this very profound acting homeopathy to the outside world through repeated successes, there is a good chance of a bright future for homeopathy. If we keep prescribing too much at the surface, aspirin may keep its popularity (=easier). Edward   about the snippets: there is just that too much room for criticism of many opinions and experiences in these form a scientific pov

Hi Edward,

Not much to comment on here.   Nothing to debate about, really.   I want to keep reading on Masi, as you noted.  In the meantime, I'll invite Dr. Kaviraj to check this thread out.  He has a lot of interesting things to say and perspectives to add.   In fact, he's out there in U.K. with you.  You might even be neighbors and become beer buddies! 

Re: snippets.  

Got another for you.   Scientific?   About as scientific as allopathy's ability to say they don't cause such things. But, we could spend the rest of our lives debating about that.  Evidence not "scientific" enough was the claim when the tobacco companies said it does not cause cancer.  They said the same thing when men in their flying contraptions proposed human flight.  Said the same thing when scientists warned FDR the Nazis were pursuing a massive, new bomb through the seemingly impossible splitting of a mere atom.  "The hell you say?!!!  Energy from a wee, little atom?!  To make a bomb?  You're all nuts!! You're quacks!!!"  Japan also had an A-bomb in the works by 1945, but we nuked them first.  As allopathy does with vaccine scientific data.....truths of history like that tend to be lost, often for commercial reasons, and so you're fed the revisionist history drivel that the Allies were mean, nasty, ruthless, warmongers who just itched to nuke two cities if only for the scientific test data it would return.  Truth is also that, yes, both cities were nuked for the sake of bomb-tuning science, too.   Damn devils them scientists!    Not sure we should be entrusting them with reporting of the truth at all times.  Might even be more reliable to trust in the most certainly un-biased, fair, never a bit commercial, and balanced "mainstream media" and TV news, eh?

PET VACCINATION
An Institutionalised Crime

Extracted from Nexus Magazine,www.nexusmagazine.com (Oct 2005). PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.com Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381

by Catherine O'Driscoll ©2005 Canine Health Concern, PO Box 7533 Perth PH2 1AD, Scotland, UK Email: catherine@carsegray.co.uk Website: http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk

A Contentious Issue
The Science behind Vaccination
The Current State of Play for the Animals
The Barriers to Knowledge
The Science of Vaccine Damage
A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced Diseases
Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory Response
A Theory on Inflammation
The Final Insult
Pet owners should be aware that vaccines compromise the health of their cherished pets, causing serious side-effects including allergies, arthritis, behavioural problems, cancer, paralysis and, at worst, death.
My partner Rob and I attended a Crosby, Stills and Nash concert recently. It was a wonderful, rare treat, and fulfilled a dream I've nurtured for many years. I was particularly moved by Dave Crosby as he sang, "Speak, speak out against the madness". We have to do that, don't we? We have to speak out when our loved ones are being harmed. If we don't, then it seems to me that we are just part of the problem. Later in the same song Crosby sang, "It appears to be a long time before the dawn". And this is true, too: it seems to be taking so long for the truth to pre­vail and be acted upon by the veterinary community—for the profession is committing a crime by vaccinating animals year after year until they drop.
I've been saying this since 1994, when I formed a group called Canine Health Concern (CHC). The aim of this group is to educate pet owners in an attempt to stop the carnage that is being visited upon the animals by the corporations and professionals who profess to be helping them. My mission is quite personal, since the science points towards the horri­fying fact that vaccines have killed three of my young, beautiful canine friends. The first shock came when Oliver suffered from rear-end paralysis and died when he was only four years old. Prudence died a slow and agonising death from leukaemia when she was only six; and Samson had a reaction to his puppy shot and first-year booster, and died of cancer at the tender age of five. All of these conditions are linked scientifically to vaccination. My other dogs were also unable to escape the damage that vaccines can cause. Chappie had thyroid disease, Sophie had arthritis and Guinnevere suffered from allergies. Again, these conditions can be scientifically shown to relate to vaccine damage.
I believe that vets of the future, and our children's doctors, will look back upon the vac­cination era with horror and shame. The horror will come from the knowledge that so much pain and misery was caused by healing professionals acting in ignorance, and the shame will come from the wilfulness of that ignorance.
A Contentious Issue
If you will forgive me for making one more personal comment before I move on to substantiate my outrageous claims, I would like to address the issue of "contentiousness", which is a label I've grown used to but which I do not intend preventing me from speaking the truth.
You may have noticed that I've been using some pretty strong language in the opening paragraphs of this article. This is deliberate. It's deliberate because doctors, veterinarians and scientists have been numbed or socially moulded into language and behaviour that follow strict codes of professional etiquette. The pressure is upon them to be polite and refrain from offending one another with ideas, which means that the truth is continually stifled. By speaking directly, it is my intention to shock that numbness out of the system which perpetuates such catastrophic error. Besides which, the truth needs to be heard.
I believe that my dogs died prematurely, and millions of other dogs, cats and horses have died and are continuing to die because of the false ideas or beliefs held by our med­ical and veterinary professions. This faulty structure of belief is built, supported and held rigidly in place by a system which is killing the life on this planet. This system ensures that professionals are taught in colleges which rely upon big business for funding, which means that their education is faulty. Research organisations also rely upon big business for funding, which means that we can rarely trust the research. The media rely upon big business for funding, so we can scarcely believe what we read. And professionals in prac­tice rely upon big business to stay in business. More worrying, perhaps, is the fact that our governments seem, from my direct experience, to put big business interests before life.
We are, in fact, looking at a juggernaut of death which is hurling itself at top speed towards the grave. We will not stop it by whimpering quietly in its face. We must educate ourselves with the truth and stand firmly in line together and shout, "No!" Failing this, the lives of your children, and your animals, depend at least upon your taking the time to understand the issues.
The Science behind Vaccination
Vaccination was born in England in 1798, when Edward Jenner observed that people who worked close to cows didn't get small­pox. He injected cowpox into humans and deduced that those humans were prevented from getting smallpox. You can imagine that, during the days of poor nutrition and appalling sanitation, the concept of a miracle cure for infectious disease would have been seized upon. And it was.
During the 1800s, Louis Pasteur developed the technology still further by attenuating vaccines, i.e., rendering them less harmful. It naturally took little time for vaccines to become big business, and over 200 years on there are vaccines against a wide array of bacterial and viral diseases in humans and many species of animal. Ignoring the fact that epidemics go in cycles and die out naturally (like the plague, for example), and ignoring the fact that our understanding of hygiene and nutrition might have something to do with the reduction in epidemics, vac­cines have been given the largest slice of the credit.
Conventional medicine works on the risk/benefit ratio. All conventional Pharmaceuticals come with the risk of unwanted side-effects—but if they can be shown to help more people than they harm, then their dangers are ignored. It is no wonder, then, that the multibillion-dollar international vaccine industry has sponsored absolutely no long-term studies—in humans or animals— to ascertain what the risks of vaccines might actually be. And when individ­ual scientists take the bull by the horns and conduct their own under-funded research, they are routinely discredited, usually by "experts" who have shares in, or lucrative consultancy income from, the vaccine industry. Even government-funded research gives those with vested interests full voice.
I guess if you can inject substances that make humans and animals sick, then you can also make a lot of money from supplying drugs that promise to alleviate these vaccine-induced illnesses. Politically and economically, it also makes sense to keep industry thriving and people in employment, and it also helps if big busi­nesses enrich political campaign funds.
The Current State of Play for the Animals
This is what I have seen happening, time after time, over the last 12 years. A "responsible" pet owner takes their dog (or cat or horse) to the vet for their annual booster. Shortly after, the animal develops epilepsy, or arthritis, or behavioural problems, or thyroid disease, or diabetes, or skin complaints, or allergies, or heart failure, or liver or kidney damage, or paralysis of the rear end, or colitis, or even cancer, leukaemia or another life-threatening immune-mediated disease shortly after the shot.
Usually neither the pet owner nor the vet suspects a link. If the owner has been particularly close to their animal friend, however, they will start to ask questions. They may ask their vet if he or she suspects a link between the booster and the subsequent illness. The answer will invariably be "No". Very occasionally the owner won't let it rest there. They'll start to seek an answer to the ques­tion, "Why did my friend die?" They will then discover that a vaccine can indeed cause any of these illnesses and that—much to their horror—there was actually no need to give their friend an annual booster.
There will, however, be no recourse. They cannot bring their dead animal back to life. If they go through the courts, the system is such that very little impact will be made for their own case or for the health of any other animals. The best that can happen is that individuals, one at a time, slowly change their vaccine practices.
The Barriers to Knowledge
It's not easy to get your message across when you're engaged in the vaccine debate. The real problem lies in the fact that the science is somewhat complex and, bizarrely, the logic of vaccination is somewhat faulty. It just doesn't make sense—so it's very much easier to hand the decision-making process over to an expert in a white coat.
Unfortunately, this leaves many people turning away from the effort involved in looking at the issues surrounding vaccination, relying instead upon someone else's judgement while at the same time suffering incredible anguish. I have had letters, emails and phone calls from so many people who worried about revaccinating their animals but who did it anyway because a vet told them to, and who now need grief counselling.
If nothing else, the 12 years I have spent running Canine Health Concern have shown me that this is the next necessary stage in human evolution: to take responsibility for our lives and the lives of those in our care. The system is so complex, and so swayed by the dominating effect of economics, that we have no choice now.
You cannot afford to subject your animals, or your children, to medical interventions that you do not understand. The belief system upon which the conventional medical model is founded is so faulty, so corrupt and so dangerous that you simply cannot afford to follow blindly.
Now I appreciate that many doctors and vets reading these words might be enraged by what I have said. They spent so much time, energy and money in obtaining their qualifications, after all. They actually do know more than most of us, and their whole lives are dedicated to healing the sick. Indeed, there is much in the conventional medical model that is good.
But doctors and vets will also resonate with the truth of what I am saying, however uncomfortable or angry it makes them feel. Recent studies show that three times more people in the UK die each year from drugs their doctors prescribe than they do in road traffic accidents. Doctors and vets do not have time to study all the side-effects of every drug: much of their understanding about drugs comes from pharmaceutical company representatives. They also have to concern themselves with income from their practice. And no one is able to know everything.
Drugs like Vioxx and Co-Proxamol in the human medical field, and Rimadyl and Deramaxx in the canine field, have now been shown to have death as a potential side-effect—but only after they passed all the safety and licensing requirements and after tens of thousands died. In America, where the FDA took action, Rimadyl comes with data sheets to warn dog owners of potential death if their pet is given the drug, and the makers of Deramaxx have had their knuckles rapped. And yet newly qualified student vets, who come on our Foundation in Canine Healthcare course, have been told in college about only the benefits of these drugs.
Patients and clients, on the other hand, do have time and often the motivation to research their own illnesses or the illnesses of their children and animals and the medications that are prescribed. All of us are far better educated than we used to be, even if we don't possess the same qualifications as the healthcare professionals.   We have minds, and we know how to use them.   And because the buck stops with us, we have a duty of care to ourselves and our loved ones. All too frequently, however,  animal guardians are moved to research after their friends have died.
My aim, and the aim of Canine Health Concern, is to provide information before tragedy occurs. Sadly, I cannot make you read this information: only your love can do this. I can say, though, that the animals have been concerned with human evolution since the beginning of time, and they will continue to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of science until we humans get it. Truly, if only we knew the full extent of the love being poured out by the animals towards humanity, we would bow down in gratitude to them, and no effort would be too much for their sakes.
The Science of Vaccine Damage
A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies ^1,2 to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might lead to life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. They obviously conducted this research because concern already existed. It was sponsored by the Haywood Foundation which itself was looking for evidence that such changes in the human immune system might also be vaccine induced. It found the evidence.
The vaccinated, but not the non-vaccinated, dogs in the Purdue studies developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin, laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen.
This means that the vaccinated dogs —but not the non-vaccinated dogs—were attacking their own fibronectin, which is involved in tissue repair, cell multiplication and growth, and differentiation between tissues and organs in a living organism.
The vaccinated Purdue dogs also developed autoantibodies to laminin, which is involved in many cellular activities including the adhesion, spreading, differentiation, proliferation and movement of cells.   Vaccines thus appear to be capable of removing the natural intelligence of cells.
Autoantibodies to cardiolipin are frequently found in patients with the serious disease systemic lupus erythematosus and also in individuals with other autoimmune diseases. The presence of elevated anti-cardiolipin antibodies is significantly associated with clots within the heart or blood vessels, in poor blood clotting, haemorrhage, bleeding into the skin, foetal loss and neurological conditions.
The Purdue studies also found that vaccinated dogs were developing autoantibodies to their own collagen. About one quarter of all the protein in the body is collagen. Collagen provides struc­ture to our bodies, protecting and supporting the softer tissues and connecting them with the skeleton. It is no wonder that Canine Health Concern's 1997 study of 4,000 dogs showed a high number of dogs developing mobility problems shortly after they were vaccinated (noted in my 1997 book, What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines).
Perhaps most worryingly, the Purdue studies found that the vaccinated dogs had developed autoantibodies to their own DNA. Did the alarm bells sound? Did the scientific community call a halt to the vaccination program? No. Instead, they stuck their fingers in the air, saying more research is needed to ascertain whether vaccines can cause genetic damage. Meanwhile, the study dogs were found good homes, but no long-term follow-up has been conducted.
At around the same time, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why 160,000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their
vaccine injection sites.3 The fact that cats can get vaccine-induced cancer has been acknowledged by veterinary bodies around the world, and even the British Government acknowledged it through its Working Group charged with the task of looking into canine and feline vaccines4 following pressure from Canine Health Concern. What do you imagine was the advice of the AVMA Task Force, veterinary bodies and governments? "Carry on vacci­nating until we find out why vaccines are killing cats, and which cats are most likely to die."
In America, in an attempt to mitigate the problem, they're vac­cinating cats in the tail or leg so they can amputate when cancer appears. Great advice if it's not your cat amongst the hundreds of thousands on the "oops" list.
But other species are okay—right? Wrong. In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also develop vaccine-induced cancers at their injection sites.5 We already know that vaccine-site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the Salk polio vac­cine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer. The monkey retrovirus SV40 keeps turning up in human cancer sites.
It is also widely acknowledged that vaccines can cause a fast-acting, usually fatal, disease called autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). Without treatment, and frequently with treat­ment, individuals can die in agony within a matter of days. Merck, itself a multinational vaccine manufacturer, states in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that autoimmune haemolytic anaemia may be caused by modified live-virus vaccines, as do Tizard's Veterinary Immunology (4th edition) and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.⁶ The British Government's Working Group, despite being staffed by vaccine-industry consultants who say they are independent, also acknowledged this fact. However, no one warns the pet owners before their animals are subjected to an unnecessary booster, and very few owners are told why after their pets die of AIHA.
A Wide Range of Vaccine-induced Diseases
We also found some worrying correlations between vaccine events and the onset of arthritis in our 1997 survey. Our concerns were compounded by research in the human field.
The New England Journal of Medicine, for example, reported that it is possible to isolate the rubella virus from affected joints in children vaccinated against rubella. It also told of the isolation of viruses from the peripheral blood of women with prolonged arthritis following vaccination.⁷
Then, in 2000, CHC's findings were confirmed by research which showed that polyarthritis and other diseases like amyloidosis, which affects organs in dogs, were linked to the combined vaccine given to dogs.8
There is a huge body of research, despite the paucity of funding from the vaccine industry, to confirm that vaccines can cause a wide range of brain and central nervous system damage. Merck itself states in its Manual that vaccines (i.e., its own products) can cause encephalitis: brain inflammation/damage. In some cases, encephalitis involves lesions in the brain and throughout the central nervous system. Merck states that "examples are the encephalitides following measles, chickenpox, rubella, smallpox vaccination, vaccinia, and many other less well defined viral infections".
When the dog owners who took part in the CHC survey reported that their dogs developed short attention spans, 73.1% of the dogs did so within three months of a vaccine event. The same percentage of dogs was diagnosed with epilepsy within three months of a shot (but usually within days). We also found that 72.5% of dogs that were considered by their owners to be nervous and of a worrying disposition, first exhibited these traits within the three-month post-vaccination period.
I would like to add for the sake of Oliver, my friend who suffered from paralysed rear legs and death shortly after a vaccine shot, that "paresis" is listed in Merck's Manual as a symptom of encephalitis. This is defined as muscular weakness of a neural (brain) origin which involves partial or incomplete paralysis, resulting from lesions at any level of the descending pathway from the brain. Hind limb paralysis is one of the potential consequences. Encephalitis, incidentally, is a disease that can manifest across the scale from mild to severe and can also cause sudden death.
Organ failure must also be suspected when it occurs shortly after a vaccine event. Dr Larry Glickman, who spearheaded the Purdue research into post-vaccination biochemical changes in dogs, wrote in a letter to Cavalier Spaniel breeder Bet Hargreaves:
"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. I do believe that the heart conditions in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels could be the end result of repeated immunisations by vaccines containing tissue culture contaminants that cause a pro­gressive immune response directed at connective tissue in the heart valves. The clinical manifestations would be more pro­nounced in dogs that have a genetic predisposition [although] the findings should be generally applicable to all dogs regardless of their breed."
I must mention here that Dr Glickman believes that vaccines are a necessary evil, but that safer vaccines need to be developed.
Meanwhile, please join the queue to place your dog, cat, horse and child on the Russian roulette wheel because a scientist says you should.
Vaccines Stimulate an Inflammatory Response
The word "allergy" is synonymous with "sensitivity" and "inflammation". It should, by rights, also be synonymous with the word "vaccination".   This is what vaccines do: they sensitise (render allergic) an individual

Dear Doc Quack, I'm a new member here, a veterinary homeopath by profession and also a tutor of advanced veterinary homeopathy with BIH. I'd be happy to add some comments to your Lab case. I also wish to commend you and thank you for the details on a case that turned out less than perfectly, thus one from which to learn. It is my belief that animals such as this lab have a life path to teach us lessons we need to know - at a sad cost to those affected by the loss - but with great potential to help others in future.  Most of my work is with immune compromise illnesses, mainly in cats, but also some cases  in dogs and other species. I have handled for example more than 500 cases of FIP in cats, and mention this for a specific reason to do with your case here:  The common factor which is so disastrous is the prednisone involvement. It is my impression that allopaths throw prednisone at anything they do not know how to fix - but unfortunately it is like a brick wall to also prevent homeopathy from having access... You spotted the other toxic issues of vaccines and Advantage - but based on those 500 cases, nothing causes a worse prognosis than the presence of prednisone in an immune compromised case. This is because prednisone destroys the thymus activity needed to produce Th-1 cytokines such as anti-cancer cytokines. It is, in my experience (- those 500 cases -) so powerful at Th-1 cytokine suppression, that it is VERY difficult to break through it with homeopathy, and yet that is what has to happen to enable the body to rebuild health using homeopathy.     Every chronic disease has various cytokines out of balance, (different ratios of incorrect cytokine levels for each illness - it is a main emphasis of current immunology research) and restoration of health can only happen once they are back in balance. Prednisone blocks this from happening. Homeopathy works efficiently only after that blockage is removed. Until then you can use homeopathy to do everything except fix the  immune system and whatever it needs to do - so an immune compromise illness will not come right that way. You can get a false sense of improvement initially in presence of prednisone - a cruel trick as it is a false superficial view. The damage is ongoing "under" that prednisone veil and it will come to the fore and expose the disaster that was ongoing beneath - namely in the cytokine realms of the immune system. So one suggestion I will make is that in future you will see prednisone as the death sentence it is, and do everything possible to reverse that position in the animal. Fast! Some options I suggest: Introduce Moducare as a food supplement. It is plant sterols and sterolins in a specific ratio which, as research shows, helps the immune system restore Th-1 actvity. Get rid of the prednisone. If it has only been given a short while it can be stopped without tapering to help speed the removal of deadly damage, provided the adrenals are supported with the right nutrients namely (for 100 lbs of animal and in proportion for other weights): Pantothenic acid  1000 mg a day Ascorbic acid or ascorbyl palmitate (I prefer the former which is more appropriate for redox reactions to detoxify) - ideally intravenously, but most USA vets are unfamiliar with that therapy. Use every 4 hours to bowel tolerance by mouth. It may need around 10,000 mg a day or more. Vit B6 100mg a day B-50 tablet (50mg each of the majority of the B vitamins) If there has been longterm prednisone like 18 yrs of it I had in one case, wonder the cat was still alive - then you do have to taper despite the supporting vitamins as there is no leftover adrenal function to speak of. If you can find it use sarcode Adrenal 4C to stimulate. I also use Prednisone 30C to help undo damage. (Simillimum in New Zealand has it) SO in my opinion and experience, and based on allopathic research showing what harm it does to Th-1 cytokine production - prednisone is the MAIN reason you lost the dog case. I appreciate your discussion of follow up issues that occur and your (IMO correct) assessment of them - but there is more to it. Vaccines are a secondary reason, also due to the known effects of damage to th-1 cytokines and the thymus. Soy food is another factor that damages Th-1 cytokines and thymus activity (also all well documented in allopathic research) - to predispose chronic disease, though it is not in all that many dog foods. It is still worth checking dog foods for canine food toxins in all dog cases. (Ask if you need a list) After years of working on immune compromise cases, it is my opinion that prednisone should be banned in all cases except Addison's disease. Nothing makes my heart sink like hearing the new case I take has been given this death sentence drug. I call it a death sentence drug because chronic disease moves SO fast in animals that there is not time to undo prednisone damage and allow homeopathy to work. The disease is rampant below that prednisone layer, and will kill the animal first. It is a race. Animal research shows that the thymus (where Th-1 cytokines originate) can be suppressed and damaged as much as 90% by a single steroid injection.     As you may know, animal vaccines also skew the immune system to the Th-2 side causing excess Th-2 cytokines and damaging the body's first line of defence using Th-1 cytokines. The result is a predisposition to all the Th-2 skewed diseases. (Examples are allergies, cancers, diabetes, and a host of others that are rife since vaccines were turned into a billion dollar industry just from pets). This Th-1 cytokine damage from vaccines is all very well documented in research in the USA National Library of Medicine, as is the prednisone damage. It is all allopathic research of course - but it is valid. The trick in homeopathy is to make use of this allopathic research knowledge to improve our chances with homeopathy.  It's not necessarily important for a homeopath to know what cytokines are high or low for a specific illness, except to know what to supplement. It is nearly always Th-1 cytokines that are not there to work properly. Lymnphoma involves cell death caused by lack of specific cytokines and a subset of these are involved in cell death in hepatoma type lesions (per Nov 2008 research they are IL-2, INF-gamma and IL-10). IL-2 and INF-gamma are Th-1 cytokines. IL-10 has regulating jobs between Th1 and Th2 and is also out of whack in the disease you handled. So with these not working, cell death would occur for the cells that can fight lymphoma. I mention this as while you were dosing Ars, these cytokines were still declining faster than the Ars could remedy and one then reaches a thresh-hold when it all falls apart and the system can not cope. SO your Ars was helping where it could - but not where the steroid was blocking it. That is my conclusion based on extensive allopathic research findings and my case experience.    Had there not been that blockage you'd have had a chance to see the IL-2 effect of macrophages engulfing all the unwanted lymphoma cells like a lot of pacman invaders for example. Wonderful to see when it happens. YOu saw the opposite. That in my view is what was missing in your case. A higher potency of Ars MIGHT have punched through in time - IF you had time. Lymphoma in dogs is notoriously fast and prednisone damage does not come right in under three months in my experience, even when I throw everything and the kitchen sink at it. And it needs all the ammo you can gather. By the way - I am not commenting on the remedy selection as I did not have the full case as you did. The symptoms you listed did look like a possible fit for Ars. My main concern is that I never fit a remedy without matching the mentals as the MAIN selection rubrics - and I suspect (depending on my forgettery at 2am) you did not mention the mentals seen at the start of the case?  Those were my main comments. A few lesser ones: You said:

<<Other recent case changes also considered possible as a zoonotic issue.>> Flu is not zoonotic. Animal flu viruses can not be contracted as pathogens by man or vice versa. You said: <<Suggested some Vitamin C and Oregano added to the dog's diet for now.>> Yes on the C,  no to the oregano as it destroys needed gut bacteria and is not checked out as safe from toxicity to dogs.  My experience is that the LEAST toxic substance added to the regime in an immune compromise or viral case, will give the disease an edge. The opposite is also true - namely that an increase in nontoxic antioxidants is very beneficial. For dogs, safe antioxidant items are genuine cane berries, spinach and cooked pumpkin, along with Vit C, Vit E (which is anti-cancer by the way), and alpha lipoic acid. You said: <<Treatment of the dog was basically done from a human prescribing perspective.  Hind legs = legs;  Front paws = hands, etc.  I dunno what to prescribe for a tail, however!   And it gets a little more tricky with goats, multiple stomachs, different metabolisms, horses, etc. >> The human approach is the right one, and human repertories are the best to use in animal cases. Tails are  made up of skin, bones, spine, fur, ligaments, tendons, etc and there are plenty of appropriate rubrics to combine depending what is wrong.  Multiple stomachs - not a problem. It is digestion related.       Remember that homeopathy works at an energetic level, not needing absorption into a specific physiology - hence if the bee hitting your windshield feels bashed, it gets arnica to be able to fly away - same as if you FEEL that you bashed your knee or the elephant FEELS it's trunk got bashed or your dog's tail FEELS bashed. Note my emphasis on how it feels and on mentals in selecting a lymphoma remedy. That is paramount in animal (and human) remedy selection in my view. To know if a remedy is truly working - your Ars here - is also IMO mentals-dependent. In my immune compromise cases, I look for mental improvement to know whether the physicals may follow. SO for example a dog case I had who was miserable before remedy for cancer, and after remedy he wanted to eat and later walk instead of being carried - that was a GREAT sign that it was the right remedy. I hope my comments might be of use. Namaste,     Irene

Thanks again for the comments, Edward. I want to read more from Masi still.

Irene, I guess I'm finished replying now.  Thank you again.  Nice to meet you!  You live in the town where I was born, by the way!  I was a Strategic Air Command baby.  On the day I was born, they broadcast my name into the sky while VC commies were being bombed by daddy and pals!  Thus, "Death to Commies!" is my birthname, I like to say.

Related to our pro-biotic discussion here:

Should Dr. Quack take up Breastfeeding?
http://hpathy.com/homeopathyforums/forum_posts.asp?TID=9013&PID=83575#83575

Edward....Irene,

Going off on a tangent here.   Have you reviewed Dr. Kumar's work on the identification of homeopathic remedies using temperature signatures?  He finds the ability to distinguish between remedies, and to determine which remedy was used in the patient.  I believe such research holds tremendous utility for future Vet homeopathy, since animals cannot speak to us very well.  I have often thought vets like you both out to be gathering research data on Dr. Kumar's work by sticking at least a temperature probe up each doggy's but with each visit --- creating a tremendous data archive for homeopathy.   Illness conditions better mapped.  Remedy applications better mapped.  All visible data.  You might want to exchange with Dr. Kumar sometime.   I believe he's left his research position in India to pursue more full-time research into the subject, and homeopaths like you both could really help him while perhaps his tools can help improve your practice.

A sister setup along a different path and with instructions on how you can set that gear up for measuring animals is found here.  Either method helps you determine the illness signature of the animal -- which should show up in greater totality by these means than you'll ever be able to find in Boenighaussen style -- while, at the same time, a Kentian style with the animals usually narrows down to the same Boenighaussen style remedy selection when done right.   Totality with considerations (Boenighaussen) often equating to the same remedy as a strict consideration of the "striking & unusual" with less total considerations (Kent).   Not a whole lot of practical utility for the clinician who does homeopathy well, but is just gear that can be used to augment your senses and other labs; Gear that helps display the power of remedies and the signature of disease; Things that better prove homeopathy.   I believe such technology useful to cases where the symptoms are not so easy to see -- such as with the unconscious, the comatose, the dying, and the very messy cases.

Regarding:

 Introducing the PHI & Fibonacci Scale of Remedies!
By DocQuack, 04 Jan. 09 at 00:21

The Fibonacci series remedies are available with special order from Simillimum in New Zealand, and the method plus about 30 cases using them, was presented in Hpathy by Dr Joe Rozencwajg recently. Had you read that?

He wrote a booklet on it which he has made available to all, no copyright as long as it is copied in toto. You can download for free here:

http://stores.lulu.com/jroz

It's called 

"Removing the guesswork from potency selection."

I am now also using a few of these.

Namaste,

   Irene