Tierhomöopathie Anhang C
[Catherine O’Driscoll]
A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, Indiana,
U.S., conducted several studies 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 20.000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their
vaccine injection sites. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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 3 months
of a vaccine event. The same percentage of dogs was diagnosed with epilepsy
within 3 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 in the process
of forcing them to develop antibodies to fight a disease threat. In other
words, as is acknowledged and accepted, as part of the vaccine process the body
will respond with inflammation. This may be apparently temporary or it may be
longstanding.
Holistic doctors and veterinarians have known this for at least 100
years. They talk about a wide range of inflammatory or “-itis”
diseases which arise shortly after a vaccine event. Vaccines, in fact, plunge
many individuals into an allergic state. Again, this is a disorder that ranges
from mild all the way through to the suddenly fatal. Anaphylactic shock is the
culmination: it’s where an individual has a massive allergic reaction to a
vaccine and will die within minutes if adrenaline or its equivalent is not
administered.
There are some individuals who are genetically not well placed to
withstand the vaccine challenge. These are the people (and animals are
“people”, too) who have inherited faulty B and T cell function. B and T cells
are components within the immune system which identify foreign invaders and
destroy them, and hold the invader in memory so that they cannot cause future
harm. However, where inflammatory responses are concerned, the immune system
overreacts and causes unwanted effects such as allergies and other inflammatory
conditions.
Merck warns in its Manual that patients with, or from families with, B
+/o. T cell immunodeficiencies should not receive
live-virus vaccines due to the risk of severe or fatal infection. Elsewhere, it
lists features of B and T cell immunodeficiencies as
food allergies, inhalant allergies, eczema, dermatitis, neurological
deterioration and heart disease. To translate, people with these conditions can
die if they receive live-virus vaccines. Their immune systems are simply not
competent enough to guarantee a healthy reaction to the viral assault from
modified live-virus vaccines.
Modified live-virus (MLV) vaccines replicate in the patient until an
immune response is provoked. If a defence isn’t stimulated, then the vaccine
continues to replicate until it gives the patient the very disease it was
intending to prevent.
Alternatively, a deranged immune response will lead to inflammatory
conditions such as arthritis, pancreatitis, colitis, encephalitis and any
number of autoimmune diseases such as cancer and leukaemia, where the body
attacks its own cells.
A new theory, stumbled upon by Open University student Gary Smith,
explains what holistic practitioners have been saying for a very long time.
Here is what a few of the holistic vets have said in relation to their
patients:
Dr Jean Dodds: “Many veterinarians trace the
present problems with allergic and immunologic diseases to the introduction of
MLV vaccines…”
Christina Chambreau, DVM: “Routine
vaccinations are probably the worst thing that we do for our animals. They
cause all types of illnesses, but not directly to where we would relate them
definitely to be caused by the vaccine.”
Martin Goldstein, DVM: “I think that vaccines…are leading killers of
dogs and cats in America today.”"
Dr Charles E. Loops, DVM: “Homoeopathic veterinarians and other holistic
practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than
they provide benefits.”
Mike Kohn, DVM: “In response to this [vaccine] violation, there have
been increased autoimmune diseases (allergies being one component), epilepsy, neoplasia [tumours], as well as behavioural problems in
small animals.”
A Theory on Inflammation
Gary Smith explains what observant healthcare practitioners have been
saying for a very long time, but perhaps they’ve not understood why their
observations led them to say it. His theory, incidentally, is causing a huge
stir within the inner scientific sanctum. Some believe that his theory could
lead to a cure for many diseases including cancer. For me, it explains why the
vaccine process is inherently questionable.
Gary was learning about inflammation as part of his studies when he
struck upon a theory so extraordinary that it could have implications for the
treatment of almost every inflammatory disease (incl. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,
rheumatoid arthritis and even HIV and AIDS).
Gary’s theory questions the received wisdom that when a person gets ill,
the inflammation that occurs around the infected area helps it to heal. He
claims that, in reality, inflammation prevents the body from recognising a
foreign substance and therefore serves as a hiding place for invaders. The
inflammation occurs when at-risk cells produce receptors called All (known as angiotensin II type I receptors). He says that while At1
has a balancing receptor, At2, which is supposed to switch off the
inflammation, in most diseases this does not happen.
“Cancer has been described as the wound that never heals,” he says. “All
successful cancers are surrounded by inflammation. Commonly this is thought to
be the body’s reaction to try to fight the cancer, but this is not the case.
“The inflammation is not the body trying to fight the infection. It is actually
the virus or bacteria deliberately causing inflammation in order to hide from
the immune system [author's emphasis].”
If Gary is right, then the inflammatory process so commonly stimulated
by vaccines is not, as hitherto assumed, a necessarily acceptable sign.
Instead, it could be a sign that the viral or bacterial component, or the
adjuvant (which, containing foreign protein, is seen as an invader by the
immune system), in the vaccine is winning by stealth.
If Gary is correct in believing that the inflammatory response is not
protective but a sign that invasion is taking place under cover of darkness,
vaccines are certainly not the friends we thought they were. They are
undercover assassins working on behalf of the enemy, and vets and medical
doctors are unwittingly acting as collaborators. Worse, we animal guardians and
parents are actually paying doctors and vets to unwittingly betray our loved
ones.
Potentially, vaccines are the stealth bomb of the medical world. They
are used to catapult invaders inside the castle walls where they can wreak
havoc, with none of us any the wiser. So rather than experiencing frank viral
diseases such as the ‘flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of
dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway—but
with cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self-attacking)
diseases taking their place.
The Final Insult
All 27 veterinary schools in N. America have changed their protocols for
vaccinating dogs and cats along the following lines; however, vets in practice
are reluctant to listen to these changed protocols and official veterinary
bodies in the UK and other countries are ignoring the following facts.
Dogs’ and cats’ immune systems mature fully at six months. If a modified
live-virus vaccine is giver after six months of age, it produces immunity,
which is good for the life of the pet. If another MLV vaccine is given a year
later, the antibodies from the first vaccine neutralise the antigens of the
second vaccine and there is little or no effect. The titre is not “boosted”,
nor are more memory cells induced. Not only are annual boosters unnecessary,
but they subject the pet to potential risks such as allergic reactions and
immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia.
In plain language, veterinary schools in America, plus the American
Veterinary Medical Association, have looked at studies to show how long
vaccines last and they have concluded and announced that annual vaccination is
unnecessary.
Further, they have acknowledged that vaccines are not without harm. Dr
Ron Schultz, head of pathobiology at Wisconsin
University, U.S. and a leading light in this field, has been saying this
politely to his veterinary colleagues since the 1980s. I’ve been saying it for
the past 20 years. But change is so long in coming and, in the meantime,
hundreds of thousands of animals are dying every year— unnecessarily.
The good news is that thousands of animal lovers (but not enough) have
heard what we’ve been saying. Canine Health Concern members around the world
use real food as Nature’s supreme disease preventative, eschewing processed pet
food, and minimise the vaccine risk. Some of us, myself included, have chosen
not to vaccinate our pets at all. Our reward is healthy and long-lived dogs.
It has taken but one paragraph to tell you the good and simple news. The
gratitude I feel each day, when I embrace my healthy dogs, stretches from the
centre of the Earth to the Universe and beyond
About the Author:
Catherine O’Driscoll runs Canine Health
Concern which campaigns for natural health in dogs, and also delivers an
educational program, the Foundation in Canine Healthcare. She is author of
best-selling books Shock to the System and What Vets Don’t Tell You About
Vaccines (1997, 1998), and Who Killed the Darling Buds of May? She lives in
Scotland with her husband, Rob Ellis, and three Golden Retrievers, named
Edward, Daniel and Gwinnie, and she lectures on
canine health around the world.
For more information, contact Catherine O’Driscoll
at Canine Health Concern, Gardener’s Cottage, Kirklands,
Ancrum, Jedburgh TD8 6UJ,
UK , email Catherine@canine-health-concern.co.uk; website
http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk. Shock to the System is available in
the UK from CHC, and worldwide from Dogwise at
http://www.dogwise.com.
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