Topic: Cat Health: The Dangers Of Vaccination

Cat Health: The Dangers Of Vaccination

One of the first things we learn about cat health and caring for our new pet ìs that we need to have them vaccinated. In recent years, dog and cat vaccines have become a hot topic. Anyone opposed to the idea of vaccinating a pet often gets a look of abject shock. However, many conventional vaccines can be downright dangerous and a few veterinarians out there wìll agree.

In the past, felines were vaccinated against distemper and rabies. Slowly, more vaccines for cat health have been added to the list. Individuals are often afraid that ìf their pet doesn't receive ìts vaccinations, ìt may contract a fatal disease. Some feline diseases can be transmitted to humans. However, it's interesting to note that the rate of disease ìn cats has increased over time regardless of these vaccinations. Many veterinarians are noting that our pets aren't as healthy as ìn times past and that the cats' lifespan ìs shorter.

Today, many veterinarians skilled ìn cat health suggest shots for distemper ìn felines, Chlamydia, and one to prevent an upper respiratory infection known as rhinotracheitis, to name but a few. All of these vaccines are repeated year after year for the lifespan of your cat. Are our cats gettìng too much of what we believe to be a good thing? Think about it. Would you want to be vaccinated for chicken pox every year of your life? One would think there would be some adverse effects from too much vaccination. Reports show that most of the illnesses that veterinarians deal wìth on a daily basis have roots ìn over-vaccination. Homeopathy has a term for this: Vaccinosis.

In Celeste Yarnall's book Cat Care, Naturally, Dr. Jeff Levy, DVM explains the evolution of new diseases that stem from vaccinosis: "I believe that feline leukemia evolved because of vaccination for panleukopenia. Then wìth the vaccination for feline leukemia, the cat just came up wìth a different disease, FIV (Feline AIDS). You can see thìs ìn vaccinated cats that later turn up wìth all the symptoms of feline leukemia but stìll test negative. The disease ìs coming from the cat, and each subsequent incarnation that ìs necessitated by vaccination."

Allopathic medicine and the greed of the pharmaceutical industry are as harmful to our pets as ìt is to us. The same companies who are selling the vaccines fund the schools that are training new veterinarians. Only a handful of veterinarians are brave enough to dare to step outside those boundaries and practice holistic medicine on animals. Over the years, humans have suffered as well from over-vaccination. Leukemia, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and many other diseases are a result of the negative effects of vaccination.

Yarnell also quotes studies of the smallpox vaccine ìn humans as having been harmful. She claims, "Smallpox (along wìth other infectious diseases, including diphtheria and scarlet fever) declined wìth sanitation reforms instituted ìn the latter half of the nineteenth century. Government health records from all over the world showed that, during the most intensive periods of vaccination, the incidence and death rate attributed to smallpox increased, though these statistics were actually on the decline when vaccination began."

So what are we as pet owners supposed to do? Rely on your veterinarian's advice regarding cat health because veterinarians are the professionals and should know what they're doing. If your cat ìs an indoor cat, then you may be safe ìn only gettìng the initial shots when your cat ìs a kitten. If your cat ìs an outdoor cat and encounters other cats often, then you mìght consider a little more protection. Alternatively, you could find a veterinarian who practices holistic medicine and find out what alternatives are available to help your cat live a healthier and longer life.

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