Questions on Rabies:|
1. What to do if bit by a certified rabid dog or bat?
2. If not vaccinated following a bite by a rabid animal is death
3. Is vaccination effective for rabies? Why do we reject it and other
vaccinations as not effective?
We frequently meet the belief that vaccines prevent disease. The
apparent success of vaccines rest on the real success of sanitation and
nutrition. The apparent success of vaccines also rests on 'Placebo
effect', the power of belief, and perhaps on symptom suppression rather
than improvement of health. Apparent vaccine success also depends upon
the public mind believing that the incidence of a disease was great
without vaccine and declined dramatically with the use of a vaccine.
Exaggerate the pre vaccine incidence and as long as the vaccine does not
cause a large number of cases of the target disease then the vaccine
will seem successful even if it is actually worthless. Few people know
that it is easier to be healthy without vaccines than it is with them.
Pediatricians who have had the opportunity to work with both vaccinated
and unvaccinated children are mystified by the fact that the
unvaccinated are more healthy. Some of course understand health
principles and know that toxin internally, not germs, is the primary
cause of infectious diseases.
For 2000 years doctors looked at the world through the filter (belief)
that 'bleeding was therapeutic'.
Not until the general education of the public lead people to rebel
against this mistake was it corrected.
Today many look at the world through the belief that 'vaccines work'.
However, as a mental exercise, we suggest you look at the world through
the following concepts.
Health is the outcome of a lifestyle which results in cell structure
which is well nourished and toxin free.
Disease is the outcome of life style elements which result in cell
structure which is either flawed or toxic. Life style elements which
create flawed cell structure may be persistent mental or emotional
states, unbalanced nutrition or toxin which can be the result of
external poison injested, breathed or absorbed, injectable poison, poor
digestion or poor elimination.
The two fundamental mistakes of vaccination are:
1. Virus "causes disease". In fact, frequently specific virus are found
within a body without disease. Sometimes a specific disease is found
without an associated virus.
2. Antibodies protect or neutralize virus. In fact, the vast majority
of people are immune to a specific disease even if antibodies to that
disease have never been developed. The presence of specific antibodies
in one's bloodstream does not prevent developing the specific disease
symptom. You cannot give a healthy person an infectious disease simply
by exposing them to virus.
Bites and puncture wounds must be cleaned. (Blood flow cleans as does
warm water and soap.)
Currently about 1 to 3 people die per year from what is believed to be
In 1900, the rate was about 100 people per year. This decline is typical
of many infectious diseases due to the effects of improved sanitation
Human rabies is very rare. If bitten by an animal, rabies is still very
rare. If bitten by a rabid animal, rabies transmission to a human is
still very rare. So being bitten by a rabid animal is not a death
sentence by any means.
Human rabies is so rare that most Doctors have never seen the disease.
Those who have seen the disease relate that the fear of the disease is
more important than the disease itself.
Some question whether rabies in humans is a viral disease or a
psychosomatic manifestation. Study the material in the remainder of this
article and make an estimate as to whether one exposed to rabies through
a bite would increase their chance of serious disease by injection of
several shots of rabies vaccine or lower the chances of serious disease.
Certainly evidence exists to justify one taking the attitude that the
vaccine would INCREASE the chances of serious disease rather than
decrease disease odds. Historical data on comparison between
individuals bitten by animals believed to be rabid showed that the
unvaccinated were more likely to remain healthy. Given the lack of
testing on modern vaccines, I can not assume that
modern rabies vaccines are effective or necessary.
Value of Vaccines Historically
Lets answer the third question in more detail first. If you look at the
history of Smallpox vaccine you will discover that some type of smallpox
vaccine has been in existence for perhaps 3500 years and some believe
longer. Yet not until sanitation and nutrition made inroads into
infectious disease incidence and mortality associated with infectious
disease did vaccine propaganda get to finally claim a 'success'. It is
clear that smallpox vaccine did at the most very little to affect
smallpox incidence and a more critical study shows that where smallpox
vaccination was practiced either disease actually increased, including
smallpox, or the decline was slower compared to areas which did not make
Then the next greatest 'success' of vaccine was the 'eradication' of
polio. This image of 'eradication' is
sold to the public in spite of the facts:
that polio was declining before the vaccine was tested,
vaccine test results were 'fiddled' to create the image of 'safe
that polio incidence doubled shortly after the Salk and Sabine
vaccines were put into intensive use,
after the vaccine introduction, the definition of polio changed
from 'paralysis for 24 hours' to 'paralysis occurring for 2 months',
the definition of epidemic changed from 20 cases to 35 cases,
polio as a disease name was given mostly to the unvaccinated and
polio in the vaccinated became meningitis, etc.
So polio eradication in the USA is another case of a disease decline
occurring in spite of vaccines not because of vaccines.
Given that the two greatest propaganda successes of vaccine are,
a mistake, and a deliberate fraud respectively, in addition to a general
increase in chronic diseases following vaccinations, you will forgive us
for being skeptical of the value of all vaccines and at a minimum
require "adequate scientific proof" of both effectiveness and safety
before endorsing a vaccine for even a 'Second Rate Health Program'
As vaccines can never be completely safe and can never be an adequate
way of achieving health, we reserve the "First Rate Health Program"
description to fit a life
style that promotes health through a clean blood stream that is well
nourished, exactly the opposite of how vaccines operate.
What to do if bitten by a rabid animal?
Now that we have a brief background, lets look at question one, what to
do if bit by a rabid animal.
First: The one thing that modern science tells us is a necessity, is
that the wound must be cleaned. If the bite is deep enough to fully
puncture the skin then blood flow will do a good cleaning job. Warm
water and soap are the next step in cleaning.
Secondly: The next thing to do after cleaning the wound is to deal with
the question of fear of the disease. In fact, it is best to deal with
fear of disease in advance of disease threats. It is known that fear is
immune system suppressing, and a optimistic state of mind is immune
system enhancing. Cases are on record of persons dying of fear even when
no organic difficulty was found. Other cases are on record where a
doctor has told a patient whom the doctor considers to be terminally
ill, "there is nothing wrong with you". The doctor is then surprised to
meet the patient a couple years later looking healthy and is told that
the doctor's previous statement "so relieved their mind that they felt
In the case of having been bit by a rabid animal, it is well to remember
that being bit by a rabid animal does not mean you have rabies, anymore
than being punctured by a rusty nail means you have tetanus. So, even
being bit by a rabid animal gives no certainty of developing rabies. If
events proceed to an individual developing rabies, ONLY THEN does a high
mortality rate become common but still there is treatment. Keep in mind
that only 1 to 3 people are believed to die of rabies in the US per
Still if one is bit by a rabid animal, one does not want to join that
select crowd of 3 people.
Thirdly: following a rabid bite, we must consider our health enhancing
Doing nothing more than one and two above frequently will be adequate,
if we are optimistic and naturally healthy. Most of us know that we
don't have perfectly healthy life styles, so what can
we do to turn 'adequate' into excellent?
Is vaccination an option?
Are large doses of vitamin C an option?
Are herbs an option? Organic foods, etc?
What other immune enhancing options might one do?
Unfortunately, here we need to amplify what has been said under
"secondly:". Optimism and faith walk hand in hand. What one believes
greatly affects the outcome of a disease challenge. We need to
understand the difference between the "value of a vaccine" and the
"value of a vaccination." From a physical point of view it might seem
there could be no difference. However, we may say that a vaccine will
always be detrimental, at least in part. We on the anti-vaccine side of
the street will say, the vaccine will do more harm than good. Our
opponents will say, the vaccine will do more good than harm. But both
sides will agree that harm will always occur. If you think otherwise,
just look at the list of ingredients and the list of detrimental side
effects, which for rabies vaccine includes encephalitis, the very thing
so feared in rabies!
Vaccination includes 'Placebo effect'.
Now what about vaccination? Given that the vaccine will do harm, can
either side say that vaccination is beneficial? What is the difference?
Simply this, vaccination includes as part of its equation the value of
the recipients optimistic expectation of positive outcome. So we can
never suggest that a vaccine will do less harm than good, but may have
to be quiet when a loved one chooses a vaccination knowing that their
indoctrinated faith plus their indoctrinated doctor's faith in vaccines
makes the 'vaccination' an inevitable choice for which we can hope the
expectation of a positive outcome will enhance the immune system, due to
placebo effect, even more than the vaccine will suppress the immune
system, even through adverse effects will definitely prove the reverse
for some individuals. We believe vaccination is the least safe and
poorest choice from a scientific point of view. But choices usually
include factors which are not scientific. While many may disagree,
unfortunately vaccine manufactures do a rather poor job of testing the
two things that a consumer needs to know most, safety and EFFECTIVENESS.
(Typically, efficacy is tested not effectiveness.) Those of us who have
studied the vaccine subject scientifically and concluded that vaccines
'do more harm than good' will not 'feel better' as the result of
putting poison in our blood stream. So I believe that if I am bit by a
rabid animal it is my best choice not to vaccinate. Depending upon your
beliefs, you might get the best results for yourself by accepting the
detriment of the vaccine to get the placebo effect of the vaccination
procedure. What ever choice you make, make it both an informed choice
and one that you can put your heart into. Forewarned is forearmed.
The biggest, if not sole, value of vaccination is the removal of the
fear of disease from not being vaccinated! The very same fear that
vaccine promoters ingrain into public consciousness.
"In early times, as recorded in articles available in old
libraries, the kiss of a king would cure rabies. It was later discovered
that a piece of the king's garment would be as efficacious.
And of course, today, there is always vaccination although I am unaware
of scientific proof that it is superior to any of the above 'remedies'.
Still later the "mad stone" when applied over the area of the bite
would "draw out the madness".
Later some of the "hair of the dog that
bit you" would either be chewed and swallowed or bound on the wound.
A still later discovery was that which employed an extract of "wild
In 1806 a Mr. Kraus was awarded $1000 by the then rulers of New York
territory for his scientific discovery which had kept rabies out of New
York for over twenty years. His formula is a matter of record and
consisted of the ground-up jaw bone of an ass or dog, a piece of colt's
tongue and the green rust off a penny of George the First reign."
Page 185-186, Poisoned Needle by Eleanor McBean.
Options continued, Herbs and Vitamin C
From, Immunization The Reality Behind the Myth: by Walene James
"Creating Natural Immunity
Follow principle and the knot unties itself.
If we can't prevent disease by injecting toxins into our bodies, how can
we prevent it? First of all, we must begin by thinking health, rather
than disease; of building or creating something desirable, rather than
avoiding or destroying something undesirable. Freedom from illness is a
by-product of thinking and building health, not of fighting disease.
build health by positive, thinking and balanced living. This latter
includes biochemical balance that is supported by eating fresh, whole,
natural foods, that is, foods that have not been refined, chemicalized,
and overcooked. Both herbs and megadoses of vitamin C have been used
successfully either to prevent infectious diseases or to shorten their
duration and lessen their discomfort.1
Currently, the focus is on megadoses of vitamin C to "protect people
from bacterial assaults." Other researchers prefer to think of vitamin C
as helping correct body chemistry. It is this latter interpretation that
we will follow, partly because it is more constructive to think of
disease as something we build from within rather than something that
attacks us from without. Also, research we will later explore supports
this more endogenous--and, I think, more holistic--point of view."
Chapter 4 has more on use of Vitamin C. This
book is available from
Rabies rare, vaccine not needed.
From Natural Immunity --Why You Should NOT Vaccinate! By Pat McKay
In a quote from a Newsletter by Robert S. Mendelsohn on page 81,
"According to Dr Cole, there is no rabies problem in Ontario: "The
number of dogs and cats that contract rabies is very small, and no human
has been shown to have contracted the disease, let alone died from it,
for well over 20 years."
Dr Cole says he wouldn't worry even if he were bitten by a pet and
would not get the rabies vaccine, citing the fact that the disease is
not as readily communicable to humans as most lay persons and doctors
"In 20 years, there have been thousands of confirmed rabid animals.
Hundreds of people have been exposed to bites and not all of them have
been able to get the vaccine. Yet no-one has got rabies. That should
tell you something."
Even vaccine manufacturer web sites admit the disease incidence is rare,
although of course they offer vaccination as the only hope from 'sure
death' from rabies if exposed.
http://www.rabavert.com/casesall.html [vaccine manufacturer site]
since 1990 a total of 24 (92%) of the 26 human cases of rabies
acquired in the United States
Again from Immunization The Reality Behind the Myth, Chapter 6. (partial
Germ Fallout: Rabies, Pasteurization, and Vaccines
Theories imprint a whole view of the universe and make you look at
everything through blinders.
-William Corliss, Brain/Mind Bulletin, January 24, 1983
Theories come and theories go. Many of yesterday's theories and
practices in medicine are now regarded as superstition, for example,
bloodletting and the theory of humours. What will tomorrow's savants
think of our preoccupation with vaccination and fighting germs? Indeed,
yesterday's knowledge frequently becomes today's superstition, and
today's knowledge tomorrow's superstition. John Stuart Mill once said,
"It often happens
that the universal belief of one age--a belief from which no one was
free, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius could, at that time,
be free--becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity that the
only difficulty is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared
Let's look at a few of the legacies of the germ theory, beginning with
some of Pasteur's greatest "triumphs" --the supposed eradication of such
diseasesas rabies, anthrax (sheep and cattle disease), pebrine (silkworm
disease), and indirectly, undulent fever (brucellosis) by the
pasteurization of milk.
Since anthrax and pebrine are somewhat afield of our concern here, we
shall not explore the chicanery involved in the promotion of the idea
that Pasteur saved the livestock and silk industries. It is largely a
repeat of the opportunism mentioned in Chapter 5, and anyone wishing
more details on the subject may consult Hume's book. Consideration of
the other two diseases, rabies and undulant fever, has important lessons
for us since many people believe Pasteur saved the world from the
ravages of milk-borne diseases and the bite of mad dogs. Let's begin
Rabies, according to one medical dictionary, is an infectious disease
caused by a filterable virus that is communicated to man by the bite of
an infected animal. Some of the symptoms listed are choking; tetanic
spasms, especially of respiration and deglutition (act of swallowing),
that are increased by the attempts to drink water or even the sight of
water; mental derangement;
vomiting; and profuse secretion of sticky saliva. And the disease is
usually fatal. No wonder Pasteur, with his antirabies vaccine, was so
readily hailed as the savior of humanity from this frightening scourge!
Much has been made of the startling cure of 9-year-old Joseph Meister,
whom Pasteur "saved" from hydrophobia (rabies). The cure seems less than
miraculous when we discover that several other persons, including the
dog's owner, were bitten by that same dog on the same day and continued
in good health without receiving Pasteur's inoculations. Other children
were not so fortunate. Mathieu Vidau died seven months after being
by Pasteur. Also, another child, Louise Pelletier, died after receiving
the Pasteur treatment.
Dr. Charles Bell Taylor, in the National Review for July 1890, gave a
list of cases in which patients of Pasteur's had died, while the dogs
that had bitten them remained well.2
Apparently, then as now, organized medicine was using the police powers
of the state to enforce obedience to its doctrines: A French postman,
Pierre Rascol, along with another man
was attacked by a dog supposed to be mad, but he was not actually
bitten, for the dog's teeth did not penetrate his clothing. Pierre
Rascol's companion, however, received severe bites. Rascol was forced by
the postal authorities to undergo the Pasteur treatment, which he did
from March 9 to March 14. On April 12, severe symptoms set in, with pain
at the points of inoculation. "On the 14th of April he died of paralytic
hydrophobia, the new disease brought into the world by Pasteur. What
wonder that Professor Michel Peter complained: 'M. Pasteur does not cure
hydrophobia: he gives it!'"3
What happened to Rascol's companion who was severely bitten? He refused
to go to the Pasteur Institute and remained in perfect health!
These stories could easily be dismissed as anecdotal except that there
are a great many of them. An article in the Archives of Neurology and
Psychiatry (January 1951) gives an account of two patients who became
paralyzed after they had been treated by the Pasteur vaccine. A report
in the Journal of the American Medical Association (January 14, 1956)
relates that at a meeting of the Academy of Medicine in France it was
pointed out that the use of the Pasteur vaccination for rabies may be
followed as long as 20 years later by a disorder called Korsakoff's
is a state of delirium. Twenty years later! It was also brought out at
that same meeting that in a study of 460 patients treated with the
Pasteur injection, 20 died.4
The Indiana State Medical Journal (December 1950) reports the case of a
man of 25 who received the Pasteur rabies treatment and became paralyzed
from the waist down and died shortly thereafter.
"The authors say that "no one knows what causes these paralytic
However, it has been definitely established, they say, that they are
not caused by the rabies virus. In other words, vaccination, not rabies
is the danger here. The authors go on to quote Sellers, another
authority, who believes that 'not hydrophobia but rabiophobia is the
most troublesome problem.' Fear of rabies, then, is what we have to fear
A story illustrating the power of suggestion to create sickness or
health is told by Millicent Morden:
A ten year old boy in town had been bitten by a dog, supposedly mad.
Local newspapers reported he was dying of hydrophobia. Flocks of curious
people were going to the house to enjoy the horrifying spectacle. The
offer of a drink of water would throw the boy into a convulsion. If any
object like a handkerchief or pencil were held near his head, he would
growl, snapping at it savagely with his teeth and frothing at the mouth.
He frequently uttered menacing growls like those of a vicious dog.
The student doctor hypnotized him and suggested that at 5 P.M. he would
suddenly get well. He left asking that a swarm of visitors be kept out.
At 5 o'clock the boy announced that he was well and wanted supper.
The crowd now wanted to see the one who had wrought the miracle in
curing hydrophobia. All wanted to be treated by him.6
This story, along with many others, tends to support statements made by
some doctors and kennel owners that rabies is an imaginary disease. In
the same radio address (quoted above), Dr. Morden mentioned other
occasions when she entered a room where the patient was strapped down
and even held during convulsions by one or more attendants. When she
unstrapped the patient, dismissed the attendants, and assured the
patient there was no such disease, she said rapid recovery followed.
Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, who was unconditionally opposed to the rabies
vaccine because of well-documented neurologic damage and death from it,
tells of a medical officer in Canada, Dr. Peter Cole, who points to
inferential evidence that the disease is not as readily communicable to
humans as is commonly thought.7
Many kennel owners report that in 30, 40, and even 50 years of working
with dogs, they have never seen a case of rabies and that they and
their coworkers have been repeatedly bitten by dogs and have simply
washed the wound thoroughly with soap and water and that was the end of
Time magazine (November 19, 1951) gives some advice on what to do if you
bitten by a dog. "It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be
removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap and water than by nitric
acid or any other cauterizing agents." Rabies virus can be inactivated
by (1) interferon, a protein substance produced by the body and
activated by parts of the B complex, and (2) vitamin C. As we discussed
in Chapter 4, vitamin C in sufficient quantities will prevent the
development of infectious disease.
Fred Klenner found that nerve-type diseases such as polio and tetanus
could be successfully treated with the proper amount of vitamin C.9
Rabies virus can be inactivated in a test tube by the addition of
vitamin C, and in 1967, a veterinarian proved he could cure distemper
with vitamin C. l0
What is the rabies virus? The identifying bacteria are called "Negri
bodies" and are found in the brain of the dead animal. However, these
bodies are found the brains of animals and people who have died of
causes having nothing to do with rabies. Frequently, they are not found
in the brains of animals that the experts were sure had rabies. No
wonder Dr. William Brady wrote as follows the Berkeley Gazette for
September 1, 1954:
I have never seen a case of rabies in man and I have never met a doctor
who has seen a case, yet we know that the preventive noculation of
Pasteur virus sometimes causes death. . . . The Pasteur treatment for
rabies is a blind treatment and no one knows whether Pasteur treatment
confers any protection against rabies. I'd never willingly receive
Pasteur treatment or give it to anyone under any conceivable
circumstances, because I fear material so injected has a disastrous
effect in some instances. It is not always successful and occasionally
paralysis follows its use.11
What is rabies? T. D. Dillon, proprietor and kennel owner, said that
most cases of supposed rabies are really running fits, teething fits,
worm fits, sunstroke from heat exposure, or hysteria caused by the dog
finding itself in a strange environment such as a hostile, bustling,
crowded city. Other kennel owners have suggested that the so-called
rabid dog can be suffering
from poor treatment, hunger, thirst, fear. At any rate, the Pasteur
treatment is as unhealthy and risky for dogs as it is for humans. Dillon
goes on to say that most dogs that he has known to be inoculated with
the rabies serum have died from its aftereffects.12
Did, in fact, the incidence of hydrophobia decrease after the
introduction of the Pasteur treatment? Dr. Charles W. Dulles, former
lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, said, "It has
been shown by statistics that in countries where that method [the
Pasteur treatment] is employed the number of deaths from hydrophobia has
increased and not diminished." 13 Ethyl Douglas Hume points out that
prior to the Pasteur treatment the average number of deaths per year
from hydrophobia in France was 30. After the Pasteur treatment, the
number Jumped to 45. She also discusses at length how the figures were
manipulated to give the impression of "success."14 Does this sound
What we said about the rabies virus is true for other viruses as well.
The disease with which a particular virus is associated is sometimes
present and sometimes not; people who have a particular virus may or may
not have the disease associated with it. ...
From page 900 of 1999 Physicians Desk Reference (RabAvert vaccine)
In view of the almost invariably, fatal outcome of rabies, there is no
contraindication to post-exposure immunization. However, if an
alternative product (e.g., HDCV or Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed [RVA]) is not
available, care should be taken if the vaccine is to be administered to
persons known to be, sensitive to processed ,bovine gelatin, chicken
protein, neomycin, chlortetracycline and amphotericin B in trace
amounts, which may be present in the vaccine and may cause an allergic
reaction in such individuals.
Serious systemic anaphylactic reactions have been reported and
neuroparalytic events have been reported in temporal association with
RabAvert, rabies vaccine administration. Against the background of 11.8
million doses distributed' worldwide as of June 30, 1995, 10 cases of
encephalitis (l death) or meningitis, 7 cases of transient paralysis
(including 2 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome), 1 case of myelitis, 1
case of retrobulbar neuritis, and 2 cases of suspected multiple
sclerosis have been temporally associated with the use of RabAvert. Also
2 cases of anaphylactic shock have been reported. Such events pose a
dilemma for the
attending physician. A patient's risk of developing rabies must be
carefully considered, however, before deciding to discontinue
Local reactions such as induration, swelling and reddening have been
reported more often than systemic reactions. In a comparative trial in
normal volunteers, Dreesen et al. (3,24) described their experience with
RabAvert compared to a HDCV rabies vaccine. Nineteen subjects received
RabAvert and 20 received HDCV. The most commonly reported adverse
reaction was pain at the injection site, reported 45% of the HDCV group,
and 34% of the RabAvert group. Localized lymphadenopathy was reported in
about 15% of each group. The most common systemic reactions were malaise
(15% RabAvert group vs 25% HDCV group), headache (10% RabAvert group
vs. 20% HDCV group), and dizziness (15% RabAvert group vs. 10% HDCV
group). In a recent study in the USA (4), 83 subjects received RabAvert
and 82 received HDCV. Again the most common adverse reaction was pain at
the injection site in 80% in the HDCV group and 84% in the RabVert
group. The most common systemic reactions were headache (52% RabAvert
group vs. 38% HDCV group) and malaise (20% RabAvert group vs. 17% HDCV
group). None of the adverse events was serious, almost all adverse
events were of mild or moderate intensity. Statistically significant
differences between vaccination groups were not found. Both vaccines
were generally well tolerated.
Uncommonly observed adverse events include temperatures above 38 degrees
C (100 degrees F), swollen lymph nodes, and gastrointestinal complaints.
In rare cases, patients have experienced severe headache, fatigue,
circulatory reactions, sweating, chills, monoarthritis and allergic
reactions; transient paresthesias and one case of suspected urticaria
pigmentosa have also been reported. [ends page 901, Chiron Corporation]
Page 2329 PDR 1999, Pasteur Merieux Connaught
( Imovax Rabies Vaccine, HDCV [human diploid cell vaccine])
Post-exposure efficacy of Merieux Imovax Rabies Vaccine was successfully
proven during clinical
experience in Iran (7) in conjunction with antirabies serum. Forty-five
persons severely bitten by rabid dogs and wolves received Merieux
vaccine within hours of and up to 14 days after the bites. All
individuals were fully protected against rabies.
[Note: we do not know that any of these bitten individuals would have
Since rabies is very rare, even from bites of rabid animals, it would be
illogical to assume any benefits are proven.]
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association has published a report in its April 1, 2008 issue, Vol. 232, No. 7, entitled: Postmarketing Surveillance of Rabies Vaccines for Dogs to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy."
Despite the extreme under-reporting of vaccinal adverse reactions, this report states on the second page that between April 1, 2004 and March 31, 2007, the Center for Veterinary Biologics, "nearly 10,000 adverse event reports (all animal species) were received by manufacturers of rabies vaccines..........Approximately 65% of the manufacturer's reports involved dogs."
The report further states on the second page that: "Rabies vaccines are the most common group of biological products identified in adverse event reports received by the CVB," and they give the following description of the adverse reaction followed by the % of dogs affected: Vomiting-28.1%, Facial Swelling-26.3%, Injection Site Swelling or Lump-19.4%, Lethargy-12%, Urticaria-10.1%, Circulatory shock-8.3%, Injection site pain-7.4%, Pruritus-7.4%, Injection site alopecia or hair loss-6.9%, Death-5.5%, Lack of Consciousness-5.5, Diarrhea-4.6%, Hypersensitivity (not specified)-4.6%, Fever-4.1%, Anaphylaxis-2.8%, Ataxia-2.8%, Lameness-2.8%, General signs of pain-2.3%, Hyperactivity-2.3%, Injection site scab or crust-2.3%, Muscle tremor-2.3%, Tachycardia-2.3%, and Thrombocytopenia-2.3%.
Read rest of story at:
2008 RABIES Vaccine-JAVMA Report Adverse Reactions in Dogs
Adverse events following rabies vaccine
Rabies vaccine adverse reactions