KMURBAN":24096f40 said:
The problem with vaccines is some are beneficial some are not. Taking a vaccine for something that is treatable is insane. Such as a flu shot. Only to find out down the road you now have shingles from a adverse reaction from 40 years ago. Whenever I take my dog to the vet they are always trying to get me to get a lime vaccination. Lime to a dog will pass in weeks, lime to a human can kill you. So it's a fear based assumption you will buy it. Often the side affects are worse than the disease and sell more drugs. A vaccine for pink eye fits in with that are you serious side of it. When it's easily enough treatable. You need to decide which diseases are most likely and most difficult to treat in your area and vaccinate for them. You need to do the research yourself otherwise you at the mercy of your vet, and can bet you will be getting all of them simply because you believe anything your told. So to say vaccination is all good or all bad isn't good either.
The drug companies work on fear. look, we came up with this vaccines that has saved 1000s of lives from something untreatable. So why not take these vaccines for a treatable condition and never have to worry. Sounds good as long as we don't read the 4 pages of side effects. You have to educate yourself and weigh the risks. Just because they have one good vaccine doesn't make them all good.
They know some know this, so now they add 3 or 4 combinations to a single shot so your forced to buy the bad or use less with the good. They ain't stupid.
First, so there is no confusion, you mean Lyme disease.
Second, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Ben Franklin.
I want to point out something you are missing. If you are a seedstock producer, it is sometimes important to vaccinate to provide liability protection. Fire Sweep and I visited an elite commercial/seedstock producer on Thursday who vaccinates for some diseases many of us would never consider. When I ask him about that, he described a situation where multiple parties were sued over brucellosis.
If you are selling seedstock particularly, demonstrating that you vaccinated, can shelter you from damage claims.