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veterinary immunologist is a person who studies and specializes in animal's immune systems and how they respond to diseases. They work to find ways to protect animals from infectious diseases and develop vaccines to keep them healthy.
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That makes for quite a high likelihood that the vaccine won't protect your dog, and it's the reason leading
veterinary immunologist Ronald D Schultz PhD says that...
Several leading
veterinary immunologists believe that repeated vaccination of a pet that is adequately protected for a disease can aggravate immune mediated and allergic disease.
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Noted veterinary immunologist Dr Ronald Schultz has addressed this issue and recommends a minimal vaccine program that includes one vaccination for parvo, distemper and adenovirus only, given at 16 weeks of age.
Decades - old research
by veterinary immunologist Ronald D Schultz PhD showed that immunity from most core vaccines can last as long as nine to 15 years, making annual dog vaccines unnecessary.
The following quote, from Ron Schultz, Ph.D., and Tom Phillips, DVM, appeared in Current Veterinary Therapy XI in 1992 (This is a purely conventional textbook, and Drs. Schultz and Phillips are respected
veterinary immunologists in the academic community):
Dr. Knobel hopes to continue his studies in collaboration
with veterinary immunologists and infectious disease specialists, to study this effect further in dogs.
Veterinary immunologist Ian Tizard writes, «You can have a negative titer and if the pet is exposed, memory cells can respond within hours to regenerate enough antibodies for protective immunity.»
Dr. Cynda Crawford, a
UF veterinary immunologist studying the disease, has said there is no reason for pet owners to panic and that they can continue bringing their dogs to places where canines congregate.
These leading
veterinary immunologists admit puzzlement at the current situation but stop short of making recommendations, since no studies have been done to show maximum duration of immunity.
Several leading
veterinary immunologists believe that repeated vaccination of a pet that is adequately protected against a disease can aggravate immune mediated and allergic disease.
My advice is based on the latest research
by veterinary immunologists, and it's the same advice given by most licensed veterinarians who belong to the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association.
Animals do not seem to be decimated by one or two vaccines when they are young and
veterinary immunologists tell us that viral vaccines need only be given once or twice in an animal's life.
«There is every likelihood that the disease will reach epidemic proportions,» says Liz Glass,
a veterinary immunologist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
Dr. Ronald Schultz,
a veterinary immunologist at the forefront of vaccine research and chair of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Pathobiological Sciences states, «Vaccines for diseases like distemper and canine parvovirus, once administered to adult animals, provide lifetime immunity.»
In the future spread her vaccines out by more than 2 weeks - there are no great studies on this but at a recent conference,
a veterinary immunologist recommended spreading them out by really as many weeks as you can, but a minimum of 2 weeks.
In both Midge's case and the NY case of flesh eating bacteria, both dogs ended up looking like this after having been administered Leptospirosis vaccines that are not even advocated for by our leading
veterinary immunologist nor by one of the leading veterinary infectious disease specialists, Dr. Richard Ford.
In addition to his work with the Maddie's ® Laboratory for Diagnosis and Prevention of Shelter Diseases at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dr. Schultz was the first president of the American Association of
Veterinary Immunologists, received the first Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award and is a member of the AVMA Feline Vaccine Associated Sarcoma Task Force.
In the Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and What We Don't Know, Proceedings — Canine Infectious Diseases: From Clinics to Molecular Pathogenesis, Ithaca, NY, 1999, Dr Ronald Schultz,
a veterinary immunologist at the forefront of vaccine research and chair of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Pathobiological Sciences, outlines the duration of immunity for the following vaccines:
Some veterinary immunologists believe that the immunity of rabies vaccines actually exceeds three years and that the duration of the vaccination could be 5 years or 7 years.
With support from a Duke / NC State Translational Research Grant from the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Eward and colleague Jonathan Fogle,
a veterinary immunologist at NC State, are working to improve those odds for people and their pets by capitalizing on aspects of the disease that are unique to canines.
``... Despite the rumors that are out on the Internet and other such sources, this disease is not as deadly as people want to make it,» said Dr. Cynda Crawford,
a veterinary immunologist at the University of Florida.
The authors are
veterinary immunologists Ronald Schultz (University of Wisconsin) and Tom Phillips (Scrips Research Institute).
In addition to his work with the Maddie's ® Laboratory for Diagnosis and Prevention of Shelter Diseases at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dr. Schultz was the first president of the American Association of
Veterinary Immunologists and received the first Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award and is a member of the AVMA Feline Vaccine Associated Sarcoma Task Force.
In America
the Veterinary Immunologists claim that vaccinations should only be given once or twice during an animal's life time.
But
veterinary immunologist Dr Ronald Schultz realized that when dogs were exposed to viruses naturally, they developed lifetime immunity.
Some pet dogs that have contracted the virus also have died, according to officials at the University of Florida, where
a veterinary immunologist is studying the outbreak.