Idiocy spreads: "Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too"-NYT

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Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too
Anti-vaccine sentiment is spilling over into veterinary medicine, making some owners hesitant to vaccinate their pets, even for fatal diseases like rabies

https://archive.ph/EZkle

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There was the dog whose kidneys shut down after it contracted leptospirosis, a bacterial disease often carried by rodents. Several of her canine patients had come down with such severe cases of parvovirus that they died after “sloughing their guts to the point of dehydration and malnutrition,” said Dr. McGuire, who owns Wildflower Veterinary Hospital in Brighton, Colo. And, after she was unable to rule out rabies, she had been forced to euthanize a 20-week-old puppy that was having seizures.
The deaths were wrenching, especially because they were preventable: Those pets would likely have survived had they received all their recommended vaccines.

State law still requires rabies, but Leptospirosis- which can likewise be spread from dog to their human family- is not. Right now, LA is having major outbreaks of Lepto--with the "well-heeled" spending $20,000 or more to send their dogs to the Veterinary School at Davis for renal dialysis. (still not all survive). In Colorado, physicians do look for possible Lepto infection in humans with severe acute kidney disease or liver involvement but that is not always the case nationwide, even though the rodents and other animals that spread it via urine to livestock and infect small lakes and ponds are undoubtedly present. Imagine your child facing life or death kidney failure for lack of a simple vaccine for your dog... And of course there is rabies...

sigh... I deal with this ignorance daily. Colorado just had a death in a woman taking livestock strength ivermectin to treat "gawd knows what." Maybe humans are just too stupid to survive...