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Complaint To The Texas Veterinary Board of Medical Examiners

Dear Board Members, I assert that the present practice of marketing of vaccinations by Veterinarians for companion animals without informed consent and where there is no benefit to the pet constitutes fraud by misrepresentation, fraud by silence, theft by deception, and undue influence. I allege this is a common practice on the part of over

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Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines

What We Know and Don’t Know Ronald D. Schultz, Professor and Chair Department of Pathobiological Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison It has been common practice since the development of canine vaccines in the late 1950’s to administer them annually. The recommendation to vaccinate annually was based on the assumption that immunity would

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New Principles of Immunology-Canine

Immunity is not controlled entirely by antibody levels as we once thought. Immunity is controlled by memory cells. Memory cells are B and T lymphocytes. These are white blood cells which stand ready in the body to respond with protective antibodies when challenged by a disease agent. Memory cells, once programmed, persist for the lifetime of the