Rabies Challenge Fund
The Rabies Challenge Study will determine the duration of immunity conveyed by rabies vaccines. The goal is to extend the required interval for rabies boosters to 5 and then to 7 years.
How does it affect your pets? Has your pet experienced any of the following illnesses?
Autoimmune diseases affecting major organs, joints, blood, skin and central nervous system
Anaphylactic shock
Aggression
Seizures
Epilepsy
Fibrosarcomas at vaccination injection sites
These illnesses could be adverse reactions linked to excessive rabies vaccinations.
Scientific data published in 1992 by Michel Aubert and his research team demonstrated that dogs were immune to a rabies challenge 5 years after vaccination, while Dr. Schultz’s serological studies documented antibody titer counts at levels known to confer immunity to rabies 7 years postvaccination.
This data strongly suggests that state laws requiring annual or triennial rabies boosters for dogs are redundant. Because the rabies vaccine is the most potent of the veterinary vaccines and associated with significant adverse reactions, it should not be given more often than is necessary to maintain immunity.
The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust has raised the funds needed to begin the study.
The first phase of the study to address the duration of immunity actually conveyed by rabies vaccine has been started by Dr. Ronald D. Schultz, Chairman of Pathobiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, who has graciously volunteered to direct the rabies vaccine research project.
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