>>>> But once your body or a horses has made antibodies for the virus, it stays in the body much much longer than the drug companies want you to know.
Not always. When I was a kid, the "rule" was that people took tetanus vaccines once a year if you had any exposure, cuts, etc. Then, somewhere along the line, they changed the recommendation to once every 10 years. Not it's back down, maybe to 5 years, I believe? (More frequently? I can't remember.) Why? Because they figured out that some people were getting tetanus if they went 10 years between vaccinations. I know a guy who was one of the unlucky ones. He got tetanus, was very sick, was hospitalized, but he did recover. I don't vaccinate all of my animals, every year, with every vaccine. But, I don't want to wait until some disease is epidemic to start vaccinating either. And if I decide on my own to push the intervals between the vaccinations, I very well could be the one to find out, oops, waiting two years may be ok for this vaccine, but five years isn't acceptable at all. Research, whether formal or informal, can be expensive, and I don't care to pay with one of my animals. That's the only way researchers can find the REAL immunity period: don't revaccinate until the group in the study start getting the disease, then they know they waited too long. I don't want to do that kind of research with my herd, thank you very much. And the immunity periods DO vary for one vaccination versus another. Kids get vaccinated for chicken pox and measles when they are preschool, and basically, they are vaccinated for life. (Or, so they believe now...that could change, if they find exceptions.) We need booster tetanus vaccines every few years. So, saying that "once your body or a horses has made antibodies for the virus, it stays in the body much much longer than the drug companies want you to know" isn't telling the full story. Karen Thomas, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.2/1353 - Release Date: 3/31/2008 6:21 PM
