Oh gawd: Nearly all UK veterinarians face skepticism from owners about vaccines

[hlthe2b]

I know it is happening here too...

Vets warn of 'MMR moment' for animal health as increasing number of owners refuse to vaccinate pets

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/vets-warn-mmr-moment-animal-health-increasing-number-owners/

The UK’s leading veterinary body has warned that animal health is facing an “MMR” moment due to increasing numbers of owners refusing to vaccinate their pets.

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) says “anti-vax” conspiracies put about online are persuading owners that inoculations against devastating diseases are unsafe.

The warning refers to the crisis in public confidence in the Measles Mumps and Rubella jab that took place after Dr Andrew Wakefield published research linking the jab to autism.

The discredited 1998 Lancet paper was subsequently withdrawn and Wakefield struck off, however public health experts believe the scare contributed towards a resurgence in vaccine scepticism which continues to this day.

The BVA’s intervention comes alongside the results of a new survey of the profession which found 98 per cent of vets have been challenged by owners about the need for vaccination.

Dog ownership forum websites and groups on Facebook are the primary source of anti-vax sentiment, according to the body's leadership. Of the vets who had been questioned, 95 per cent said that their client’s challenges were influenced by internet research.

[Skittles]

1. really, really shows how stupid so many people are

it's just plain scary

[pansypoo53219]

2. ok. my cats are always INDOOR cats. they do not NEED a rabies vacine. because i am not rabid + won't

[hlthe2b]

3. Unless they get out and animal control picks them up and/or heaven forbid they bite someone

I have known someone who felt as you do. Her aging cat got out, came back with scratch/bite marks and a week later a raccoon dead to rabies was found blocks away. Having not been vaccinated, the cat had to be euthanized by order of local public health because she could not afford the costly and long term quarantine under veterinary supervision, leaving no other options.

[Codeine]

5. Goodness knows no indoor cat ever got out.

And no outdoor cat ever snuck into someone else’s house.

[pansypoo53219]

6. only once did a cat get out + whiskers stayed under the front bushes til i got home. TAKE ME HOME!!!

all my cats have stockholms. inside is so much better.

[Mariana]

7. Many cases of rabies come from infected bats.

Sometimes, bats get in the house.

[Hekate]

4. Rabies

[MissB]

8. Oh yeah. I ran into one here

(Oregon) I was at the local pet store picking up some items for my cat and ran into the parent of a kid from my sons’ high school. She was always very vocally anti fluoride so I suppose it shouldn’t have surprised me when she went off on how she was rescuing a kitten that had been vaccinated and was terribly sick from the “toxic” vaccinations.

Sigh.