DR JEAN DODDS, world renown immunologist, will be in Chicago April 5th
From the Royal Treatment Veterinary Spa, an alternative veterinary medicine and veterinary rehabilitation clinic in Chicago:
April 5th - A Rare Opportunity to Meet the Amazing Dr. Jean Dodds
Professionals and pet owners alike will benefit from meeting with this fascinating veterinarian and expert from California, Dr. Jean Dodds.
We are sponsoring a fundraising dinner to contribute to The Rabies Challenge Fund - Dr. Dodd’s project to prove that Rabies Vaccines last 7 years! It is a lot to take on, and you can imagine that there will be limited funding from most pharmaceutical companies. (We’ll have to ask her about that!)
Dr. Dodds is an amazing speaker who will be available to discuss her work after a fascinating and accessible talk on what’s at stake here. Her work has brought common sense back into the process of vaccination in our pets. She will address the serious effects (both useful and dangerous) of vaccination, that is accessible to owners and professionals alike. If you have a pet you won’t want to miss this event. After her last speaking event, most of the attendees stayed on for hours just to talk to her about immune system issues and further interesting questions. She was terrific.
In light of a new law in Kansas that would require annual vaccinations for Rabies, even though we know that they last 3 years, we must keep informed on these issues. They could start affecting us all!
Dinner, drinks, music, conversation and a stunningly beautiful location in an architect’s home.
Please come and make a difference for our pets!
$200/person, $100/significant other
April 5th, 6:30-9:30pm
1615 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL
Call 773-267-9966 or Email Royalvet@aol.com by March 31st to make reservations!
World-Famous Scientists Donate Services to
The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust
Written by Nancy Freedman-Smith, Maine Today.com
Two world-renowned giants of veterinary vaccine research — Dr. W. Jean Dodds of Hemopet and Co-Trustee of The Rabies Challenge Fund and Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine — have volunteered their time to ensure that critical 5 and 7 year rabies challenge studies are conducted in the United States. The studies are to be financed by The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust, a tax-exemption organization founded by pet vaccine disclosure advocate Kris L. Christine of Maine in 2005, and will be performed by Dr. Schultz at the University of Wisconsin. The University has waived its usual 48% overhead fee for these studies.
The concurrent challenge studies will determine the duration of immunity conveyed by the canine rabies vaccine, with the goal of extending the state-mandated interval for boosters to 5, and then to 7 years. According to Dr. Dodds, “This is one of the most important projects in veterinary medicine. It will benefit all dogs by providing evidence that protection from rabies vaccination lasts at least 5 years, thereby avoiding unnecessary revaccination with its attendant risk of debilitating adverse reactions. ”
Scientific data indicate that vaccinating dogs against rabies every three years, as most states require, is unnecessary. Studies have shown the duration of protective immunity as measured by serum antibody titers against rabies virus to persist for seven years post-vaccination, and results of a 1992 French challenge study led by Michel Aubert demonstrated dogs were immune to rabies five years after vaccination. Researchers believe the rabies vaccine causes the most and worst adverse reactions in animals and concur that it should not be given more often than is necessary to maintain immunity. Adverse reactions to rabies vaccination can include autoimmune diseases affecting the thyroid, joints, blood, eyes, skin, kidney, liver, bowel and central nervous system; anaphylactic shock; aggression; seizures; epilepsy; and fibrosarcomas at injection sites.
Dr. Schultz states that “[s]howing that a vaccine for rabies can provide 5 or preferably 7 years of immunity would have great significance not only in controlling rabies but more importantly in reducing the adverse vaccine reactions that can occur in dogs and cats after vaccination.”
More information on The Rabies Challenge Fund and the concurrent 5 and 7 year challenge studies it will finance can be found at the fund’s newly established website designed by volunteer Andrea Brin at: www.rabieschallengefund.org.
