{"id":16701,"date":"2019-06-25T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/?p=16701"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:25:21","slug":"a-crisis-of-historic-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navc.sitepreview.app\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/preventive-medicine\/a-crisis-of-historic-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crisis of Historic Proportions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although times have changed, the emotions and beliefs\u2014which may be philosophical, political, or spiritual\u2014underlying vaccine opposition have remained relatively consistent since Edward Jenner introduced vaccination. Health and medical scholars have described vaccination as one of the top 10 achievements of public health in the 20th century.<sup>1<\/sup> Yet, opposition to vaccination has existed as long as vaccination itself, since the times of the anti-vaccination leagues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recently, vaccination controversies surrounding the safety and efficacy of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine have become polarizing in public opinion. Again, the reasons behind this \u201cmovement\u201d are multiple and a mix of nonsensical, misinformed, and unscientific, but the concern for the veterinary profession is the bystander effect that such opinion has on the vaccination of pets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d are increasingly voicing loud opinions that vaccines are unnecessary and dangerous and that they can even cause a form of (canine) autism! There is no evidence that dogs can develop autism but in this day and age it seems we have to prove the preposterous is wrong rather than the sensible is right.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cStrange times are these in which we live\u2026 the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.\u201d \u2014 Plato<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The animal health charity People\u2019s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) surveyed 4600 U.K. pet owners and found that about 25% of dogs had not had their required vaccinations (according to PDSA, if this number is extrapolated to the general public, that equates to about 2.2 million dogs).<sup>2<\/sup> The most common reason people gave for not vaccinating their dogs was that \u201cit\u2019s unnecessary.\u201d Whatever the justification, every owner who does not vaccinate their pet contributes to endangering population-level immunity. A contributing paradoxical aspect to low vaccination rates is that because vaccines have been so successful at controlling animal diseases, many people have no experience with how devastating those diseases can be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the veterinary anti-vaccination movement may be niche, it shows no sign of stopping; in some U.S. states, anti-vaccination activists have recently pushed to make state laws about mandatory pet vaccinations laxer. It\u2019s not only pet owners, though, that create a new acceptance of lower vaccination requirements. The AAHA has introduced an online \u201cLifestyle-Based Vaccine Calculator\u201d that may seem to encourage reduced vaccination rates.<sup>3<\/sup> If you check the boxes that describe how your dog lives, it will recommend the most important vaccines. We can\u2019t complain that owners are not vaccinating their dogs appropriately if we do not educate with clear guidelines as to what is necessary and why. We may be standing on the precipice of a historic veterinary vaccination crisis and it is that history which is mocking us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TVP Editor in Chief Simon Platt discusses the repercussions of the the anti-vaccination movement in veterinary medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-july-august-2019","column-editors-letter","clinical_topics-preventive-medicine"],"acf":{"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_sidebar_ad":false,"hide_all_ads":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ 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