[ SHOWGSD-L ] Rabies Challenge Fund Grows
- From: shirley sommers <ssthunderpony@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:40:10 -0800 (PST)
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Regards, Kris L. Christine
Founder, Co-Trustee
The Rabies Challenge Fund
http://www.rabiesch allengefund. org
Donations can be sent to:
The Rabies Challenge Fund
c/o Hemopet
11330 Markon Drive
Garden Grove, CA 92841
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.rabieschallenge fund.org <http://www.rabiesch allengefund. org/>.
To date, the following breed clubs, along with hundreds of pet owners,
trainers, breeders, and kennel owners have contributed to The Rabies
Challenge Fund:
Akita Club of America
American Shih Tzu Club
Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Nashoba Valley
Bernese Mountain Club of SE Wisconsin
Capital City Cocker Club
Chesapeake, Virginia Dog Fanciers Association
Collie Club of Georgia
Dog Agility Racing Team of Chino
Great River Stockdog Club
Heart of Minnesota Great Dane Club
Kennel Club of Buffalo
Kerry Blue Terrier Foundation
Kishwaukee Kennel Club
Kuvasz Fanciers of America
Lehigh Valley Kennel Club
Miniature Schnauzer Club of Southern California
Northern Illinois Schutzhund Club
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada
Pacific NW Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Network
Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier Club
Staffordshire Terrier Club of America
Standard Schnauzer Club of Southern California
Wachusett Kennel Club
Evergreen Empire Manchester Terrier FanciersSSION GRANTED TO POST AND
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egards, Kris L. Christine
Founder, Co-Trustee
The Rabies Challenge Fund
http://www.rabiesch allengefund. org <http://www.rabiesch allengefund. org/>
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