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.
this headline is meant to get a rise out of readers. are these numbers greater than they used to be? we can’t say they’re on the rise without a prior measurement
Maybe don’t stop reading at the headline then, or better yet read the actual fucking paper they reference.
If you truly cared the answers are there
the number is not in the article op posted. op didn’t post a link to the paper, my comment is on the article not the paper.
your tone sucks. people don’t deserve to be spoken to that way and your actions have consequences. do better.
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
have their own identity, they’ll sniff and hump anything
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.
Mine has dogtism.
No, that is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Dog (ADHD)
I feel sorry for the humans that will suffer from incurable diseases like rabies because of this nonsense.
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
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.
I agree with your sentiment, but the quote is from Corolanius. Marcius (a Roman general) is cursing his own men for retreating from an assault upon an enemy city. He’s very upset.
Hmmm, no doubt you’re correct now that I read it in context. I can’t place exactly where I got this notion from and my Google fu is not finding it. It was a piece online somewhere about Shakespearean concepts as to the lives of commoners in his time, including plague, through his works.
Thankfully my dog only really interacts with other dogs at places that require vaccinations.
I have extended family members who have fake COVID vaccine cards. How tough do you think it will be to fake a dog’s status, or even find an insane veterinarian who is willing to sign on the dotted line for a little moolah?
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At least in Canada, rabies vaccines are legally mandated
It’s kinda good, we need mechanisms which can keep natural selection on its track …
I don’t want to be naturally un-selected because my neighbor’s rabid dog bit me.
Get a gun. Shoot their dogs. Problem solved 😁
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I mean, I didn’t say there weren’t consequences lol
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You’re right, but hey, we have to be inclusive with every idiot …
Or un-naturally selected? 🤔
Whelp, that finishes my internetting for the day.
There should definitely be laws about vaccinating dogs against rabies.
I think there are? At least I think there is in PA.
Every state in the union except Kansas has a law on the books, though New York seems to have some technicality going on.
http://powershotsmn.com/rabies_laws_by_state.html
Many do allow medical exemption though, so these nuts have a loophole in many states.
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Imagine dying a slow and horrible death because Karen didn’t trust the rabies vaccine.
I’m fine with Karens dying from their own stupidity just don’t make it anyone else’s problem.
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
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.”
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’m not. As much as I have no sympathy for shitty dog owners, chances are shitty dog owners are gonna keep from doing anything enough that someone innocent may get bit and unknowingly get rabies. That and shitty dog owners seem likely to simply lie about having given a rabies vaccine to their puppers. Literally I want anything and everything to help prevent innocent people (and other dogs) from getting rabies. It’s so fucking awful. Even if that includes saving some people from leaving the gene pool that might not deserve to be there.
…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.
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
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
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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.
Dog owners too dumb to pick up after their own dog’s poop wonder if they even need to take their dog to the vet.
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?
On the plus side, some of those owners are bound to be bitten.
Sure, but with the much bigger minus that rabid dogs are also likely to bite a lot of perfectly innocent people, particularly kids, and even more particularly, kids who have crazy anti-vaxxer parents that might not get them a (human) rabies shot in time to save their life after a dog bite.
(note how many kids die of self-inflected gunshot wounds because their parents are too stupid to keep them safe from those)
As a kid I remember a rabid dog confronting me in an alley. A cop showed up an shot him dead. You might think I would be traumatized, but actually thought it was kind of cool.
28 days later…
Updates on Rabies virus disease: is evolution toward “Zombie virus” a tangible threat?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7975959/
The irony of brain dead anti vaxxers becoming zombies
I mean… they kinda already are.
Any evolution or opportunity for it through any spread, especially in human adjacent vectors, is super bad news. A respiratory communicable rabies would be a potential “doomsday virus”. We really don’t want rabies picking up any new tricks.
Not enough.
More people are dumbshits
