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Pet Vaccination: Insti Continued from page 27 NEXUS 4/04). She lives in Scotland with her 8. Am Coll Vet Intern Med 14:381, 2000. partner, Rob Ellis, and three Golden 9. Dodds, Jean W., DVM, "Immune System NEXUS 4/04). She lives in Scotland with her partner, 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, PO Box 7533, Perth PH2 1AD, Scotland, UK, email catherine@carsegray.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. 8. Am Coll Vet Intern Med 14:381, 2000. 9. Dodds, Jean W., DVM, "Immune System and Disease Resistance", at http://www. critterchat.net/immune.htm. 10. Wolf Clan magazine, April/May 1995. 11. Goldstein, Martin, The Nature of Animal Healing, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999. 12. Wolf Clan magazine, op. cit. 13. ibid. 14. Journal of Inflammation 1:3, 2004, at http://www. journal-inflammation.com/ content/1/1/3. 15. Klingborg, D.J., Hustead, D.R. and Curry- Galvin, E. et al., "AVMA Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents' report on cat and dog vaccines", Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221(10):1401-1407, November 15, 2002, http://www.avma.org/ policies/vaccination.htm. 16. ibid. 17. Schultz, R.D., "Current and future canine and feline vaccination programs", Vet Med 93:233-254, 1998. 18. Schultz, R.D., Ford, R.B., Olsen, J. and Scott, F., "Titer testing and vaccination: a new look at traditional practices", Vet Med 97:1-13, 2002 (insert). 19. Twark, L. and Dodds, W.J., "Clinical application of serum parvovirus and distemper virus antibody titers for determining revaccina- tion strategies in healthy dogs", J Am Vet Med Assoc 217:1021-1024, 2000. and, in the meantime, hundreds of thou- sands of animals are dying every year— unnecessarily. The good news is that thousands of ani- mal 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 pre- ventative, eschewing processed pet food, and minimise the vaccine risk. Some of us, myself included, have chosen not to vacci- nate 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. oo Endnotes 1. "Effects of Vaccination on the Endocrine and Immune Systems of Dogs, Phase II", Purdue University, November 1, 1999, at http://www. homestead.com/vonhapsburg/ haywardstudyonvaccines. html. 2. See www.vet.purdue.edu/epi/gdhstudy.htm. 3. See http://www.avma.org/vafstf/default.asp. 4, Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) Working Group on Feline and Canine Vaccination, DEFRA, May 2001. 5. JVM Series A 50(6):286-291, August 2003. 6. Duval, D. and Giger, U. (1996). "Vaccine- Associated Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia in the Dog", Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 10:290-295. 7. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 313, 1985. See also Clin Exp Rheumatol 20(6):767-71, Nov-Dec 2002. About the Author: Catherine O'Driscoll runs Canine Health Concern which campaigns and also delivers an educational program, the Foundation in Canine Healthcare. She is author of Shock to the System (2005; see review this issue), the best-selling book What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines (1997, 1998), and Who Killed the Darling Buds of May? (1997; reviewed in NEXUS +75 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com