More than half of U.S. dog owners expressed concerns about vaccinating their dogs, including against rabies, according to a new study published Saturday in the journal Vaccine. The study comes as anti-vaccine sentiments among humans have exploded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pets are now often considered to be a member of the family, and their health-care decisions are weighed with the same gravity. But the consequences of not vaccinating animals can be just as dire as humans. Dogs, for example, are responsible for 99% of rabies cases globally. Rabies, which is often transmitted via a bite, is almost always fatal for animals and people once clinical signs appear. A drop in rabies vaccination could constitute a serious public health threat.
In the new study, the authors surveyed 2,200 people and found 53% had some concern about the safety, efficacy or necessity of canine vaccines. Nearly 40% were concerned that vaccines could cause dogs to develop autism, a theory without any scientific merit.
Oh for fuck’s sake…
I said the exact same thing. People are stupid.
I say for humanity when our demise comes, it will be our own fault and we’ll totally deserve it
Welp, looks like rabies is gonna have a huge comeback. I bet there’s a huge overlap with antivaxx owners and unleashed pets too.
It’s really sad too.
One interpretation of the cause of this problem is that vaccines are just too effective. No one has polio, not to mention even chicken pox.
A resurgence of rabies (or, god forbid, small pox) will clear that up real quick.
Then again, too much of this planet have been fed a steady diet of propaganda for most of their adult lives.
Ahem.
Fwiw the last big smallpox outbreak was in 1962.
And? All that needs to happen for a major world outbreak now that almost no one has any immunity is for it to escape from a lab or a vial in cardboard box somewhere.
How many millions died from COVID? Try billions.
Let me tell you what, that would sure reduce our carbon footprint and the price of housing.
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I literally saw lady letting fucking hellspawn of a child COVERED IN CHICKEN POX run around barefoot at Aldi a few weeks ago. I was so panicked I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t even see them until I was walking out so I just got out as fast as I could. My wife has never had chickenpox, and adult chickenpox can apparently be much more deadly, so it was definitely kind of terrifying.
Get the damn vaccine.
I’ll have to check to see if she’s gotten it. I can’t imagine she’s gone this long without getting chickenpox and not being vaccinated for it, but I don’t think the chickenpox vaccine was as widely known of when we were kids in the 90s.
There’s an adult vaccine, get it and fear not: https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/chickenpox-varicella-vaccine-guidelines-for-adults
Smallpox can never return. It is gone forever
It’s extinct in the wild. It’s still frozen in labs, and the soviet union made it in vast quantities before falling apart. There’s also samples sitting around that are occasionally found.
It’s not completely gone. That’s why they still vaccinate you for it when you join the military.
A simple search would tell you that there is a great deal of controversy over the fact that this virus is not gone forever.
Try to be better and not amplify false statements.
I don’t think that anyone plans on releasing smallpox from labs. That wouldn’t benefit anyone.
Who said anything about planning?
Oh, hello! It must be your first time coming to Earth and meeting humanity.
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I’d let my cat out if I had one. They deserve to explore and be happy
They deserve to explore and be happy
Do they deserve to explore and suffer horrible injuries and/or death? All the while decimating local bird populations, and, if not spayed or neutered, creating more kittens to live lives full of suffering and hardship?
Yep
Good thing you don’t have cats then, sounds like you’d be an irresponsible owner.
I thought you would love to know… haha, we are e now irresponsible cat owners. ;)
Why would I like to know that you’re proud of potentially causing suffering to your pets and other animals?
Even just today I had to rescue a kitten who had been yelling for hours near my house because their owners let them outside. At least she was microchipped so we could find them easily, but she was not happy about it at all. Came running after me as soon as she saw me, and ran inside the house when I opened the kitchen door.
If you say so friend.
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Dogs and cats are not the same. And that sucks.
I’m also glad I don’t know you and I bet that is mutual. We can celebrate this non-familularity.
As the disease progresses, the person may experience delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia. The acute period of disease typically ends after 2 to 10 days. Once clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal,
I believe the current survival rate is 29 people ever.
Only 5 of whom had no long-term damage.
Sauce. It’s a bit old at 2020 though so there are probably a few more.
It’s a bit old at 2020 though so there are probably a few more.
Well the average is 1 survivor every 167 years, so I’d say that’s charitable.
Well the average is 1 survivor every 167 years, so I’d say that’s charitable.
This is nonsense lmfao. Why you even said this after I linked a literal study about the surviving cases is beyond me.
30 survivors in 5000 years = 1/167. Apparently it’s about 4000 years, so 1/133. My bad.
Do you believe the earth is 5000 years old or something?
The first unvaccinated person to live from rabies was in 2004 due to the Milwaukee Protocol.
2023 - 2004 = 19. 29/19 = 1.53 survivors per year.
cocks shotgun not if I can help it
The truly ironic thing is that the fact that vaccines worked so well at eliminating so many horrible diseases is why these chuckle fucks don’t think that they need vaccines.
If they never saw a loved one killed or permanently fucked up from disease it must not exist or it’s no a big deal. They are completely oblivious to the fact that vaccines are the reason why they never saw the suffering and death first hand.
The sentiment is different now though around becoming unwell with one of these diseases. They’ll argue they caught it from vaccine shedding rather than naturally so it will just make them even more psychotic on the antivax soapbox.
Andrew Wakefield has a lot to answer for by rocket powering our regression in modern medicine.
Yeah, I feel like anyone who denies a vaccine should be forced to watch a graphic video about people who suffer the effects of measles, mumps, reubella or rabies or whatever they are wanting to deny and then can make their choice if they want that, or to believe a Baywatch star regurgitate nonsense
Unfortunately, Herman Caine awards are a thing. There were plenty of honorable mentions where the person caught COVID, went through a long, expensive, and arduous recovery, and they are still staunchly anti-vax. The damage the far right media has done to the world will take at least a generation of aggressive countermeasures to correct.
Oh, but if this goes on they’ll definitely see the effects.
I feel sorry for the dogs that will suffer because of this nonsense.
At least they won’t be autistic.
I hear it turns dogs gay or something
And magnetic. You don’t want a magnetic dog.
Sure as hell do. Shoe-in for frisbee throwing champs.
Yeah, but then they go in the kitchen and get near the knives. Then you have a knife dog.
have their own identity, they’ll sniff and hump anything
Mine has dogtism.
No, that is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Dog (ADHD)
You’re going to deny them all that 5G coursing through their veins? Think of the speed increase!
Babe wake up, 6G vaccines just dropped
I feel sorry for the humans that will suffer from incurable diseases like rabies because of this nonsense.
…is almost always fatal for animals and people…
That’s an understatement. I think there are only one or two documented cases ever where someone started to show symptoms of rabies and lived. If I recall correctly those who did live were given massive doses of the vaccine as the moment symptoms were noticed and were mentally incapacitated the rest of their lives.
Not quite, the vaccine is only part of it. The Milwaukee Protocol involves putting the patient into a coma and dropping their body temp so low that the virus can’t spread (should note that low core temps are why marsupials like opossums are damn near immune) because once symptoms are showing it’s actively turning your brain to mush. Between the virus already being present and the coma, brain damage is basically guaranteed despite survival.
Iirc only 29 people recorded as surviving. We should note that rabies has a written record going back to the start of writing. 29, in 4 millennia.
Rabies is scary as fuck y’all. You can get this shit from getting an organ transplant from someone who never knew they were infected after being bitten by a bat while camping last year.
https://youtu.be/kxBIJvNHZg4?si=2MjzGA2caKFIcBcM here’s a video that’s pretty disturbing if you’re wanting to see what dying of rabies looks like. Spoilers, it’s awful.
There’s also a lot of disagreement on if the Milwaukee Protocol works or if it’s something else entirely that we’re just starting to figure out, and if it’s worth the risks of things like lock-in syndrome if it won’t do anything helpful for most people. Radiolab has a pretty interesting episode about it all
You can get this shit from getting an organ transplant from someone who never knew they were infected after being bitten by a bat while camping last year.
Reminds me of my favourite episode of Scrubs
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There is radiolab episode about this, highly recommended. A girl survived who was bitten on her toe by inducing a coma and giving her the vaccine. The idea was that slowed the death march of the rabies to the brain and allowed the body enough time to mount a defense. The treatment had not had a very good success rate.
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Imagine dying a slow and horrible death because Karen didn’t trust the rabies vaccine.
Fucking infuriating.
To everyone who’s ever said, “oh, it’s just harmless fun,” in reference to any kind of pseudoscience: here is just one more example of what normalizing that type of magical thinking can do.
Imagine? It’s fucking happened! Many Karens have died in hospital with ventilators, begging for paxlovid but it was too late.
The surviving Karens then say “See, it wasn’t so bad” or “COVID isn’t real.”
The shape of the Venn diagram about people who don’t vaccinate their dogs, and people who keep their dogs off leash is a circle
I’m fine with Karens dying from their own stupidity just don’t make it anyone else’s problem.
I’ve recently encountered a cat rescue that rehomes their feral cats without giving them their rabies vaccines and NOT disclosing this. Ask me how I know and am 11 needles deep…they asked me to lie to public health and maintain that rabies isn’t actually necessary and I wasn’t really put at risk (?!)
It’s fucking ludicrous and public health barely responded.
I am all for saving and rehoming ferals but holy hell VACCINATE AGAINST RABIES. The reason it’s not as prevalent is BECAUSE OF THE VACCINES.
This is awful!
Can you complain further up the chain, at a county or state level?
Sometimes I really hate it here
Oh these dumb assholes.
Shakespeare on it:
“All the contagion of the south light on you. You shames of Rome! You herd of boils and plague. [Let us] plaster you o’er, that you may be abhorr’d! Go, further than seen, and one infect another, against the wind another mile!”
This was about plague and dirty people that wouldn’t stop dumping their shit in the gutter in front of their houses. He says you dirty fucks, herd of plague, were going to post picture of you on the wall and make fun of you. You should leave town, and then go another mile away, and infect each other.
Savage.
Do these people actually want to experience rabies, a disease with 99.9999999999% death rate, for themselves? Well, good luck for them, and natural selection will prevail.
Unfortunately the dog is probably more likely to bite someone else, not a member of the family that refused to vaccinate him.
I pay $10 a year to license my dog. My dog has to be rabies vaccinated to get his license. He’s issued a tag with an ID#. The vet has to report his vaccine info. I get a certificate with a vaccine number too. I suppose I’m fortunate to live in an area with this as a requirement but I think it’s pretty easy to get around this too. I live in a metro area. I suppose in more rural areas, licensing and registration of dogs isn’t the norm.
That’s true I think in most of America but it’s voluntary, basically. You’re supposed to do it but there is no enforcement until your dog gets loose or bites someone and someone asked about your license.
This would be decried as authoritarianism in many part of the US
Killing your dog to own the libs
I give it 7 years before we hear a story about a rash of children getting rabies and dying probably somewhere in the southeast or Midwest from a rabies outbreak.
Florida.
Meanwhile I was thrilled when my vet got the bunny vaccine, which had to be specially imported under special rules from Europe. And I was even more thrilled that a US made alternative just became available because it doesn’t involve growing live virus in bun buns. Hell no we don’t want RHD2, and IMHO you would have to be insane to withhold that vaccine from your bun buns.
Buns don’t get rabies vaccines but I’m perfectly happy to vaccinate my cat against whatever the vet suggests.
As an autistic, a dog lover and a science guy… I feel so fucking conflicted.
Like, statistically speaking dogs are more likely to bite their owners, making rabies lethal for both the dog and the common sense challenged owners; I’m willing to let the humans die, however the dog is still innocent.
Anyway, I just wish every single conspiracy theorist anti vaccine person gets a very treatable and preventable (via vaccine) disease+infection; no sympathy from me.
I can precisely follow the Stupid Logic and I hate it.
