Skye and Sally ~Fire Island <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > > --- Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > What are the best approaches to eradicating the disease? What are > > we not > > > doing? > > > > boy i am so glad you asked--- a 14 dollar vaccination. Thats all > > we > > need to do as animal owners toward eradicating this horrible > > disease > > that is 100% fatal and 100% eradicatable.
So what do we do about the wild animals? Finland has long been rabies-free (except for one case a few years ago, an imported horse) but the last epidemic was in wild animals. At that time it was considered almost impossible to get rid of the disease again since the success before had been because the diseased animals were domestic animals and could be euthanized and the healthy ones vaccinated. But when Stali died of > > rabies, many people came out on these lists saying it was better > > not > > to vaccinate a horse too much and take your chances on something > > rare, > > that over vaccinating causes immune system problems. ?? thats > > just > > so freakin nutty and makes my blood boil frankly. I wouldnt wish > > it > > on my worst enemy, what I went thru, and for ANYONE to say its bad > > or > > wrong to do something so cheap and inexpensive to prevent such a > > devastating horrible thing, a thing so HORRIFYING to watch an > > animal > > suffer and die from... well, it just makes me want to thump em on > > their pointed little heads. > The other side is getting all the > vaccinations at once, and the horse having a reaction to it, then > having issues, and dying. Or having a mild reaction where the shot > was injected and never having the swelling go down and they always > have a huge bump....I have known horses to die from getting their > vaccinations.....I have had puppies die personally from them. In Finland almost all the dogs are vaccinated, some every year, some every other year. Still there are far more deaths from diseases that could be prevented by those vaccinations than there are deaths caused by vaccines. But if someone has a dog die from for example distemper they are usually quiet about it (that they have neglected the vaccination or the dog has been illegally imported from Russia etc), but when a dog dies because it gets a reaction to vaccine, it's all over the net and everyone is warning each other not to vaccinate or at least not to vaccinate with that brand of vaccine. So all people hear is how dangerous vaccines are. Krisse
