Did you know that the distemper vaccine when used in a combination vaccine predisposed a pet to hyperthyroidism?
On page 89 of The Nature of Animal Healing by Dr. Martin Goldstein, DVM he writes " With cats, a similarly suspicious link copped up between a new vaccine and increased incidences of hyperthyroidism. the correlation was especially compelling because hyperthyroidism isn't a virus or bacteira that might be spread any number of ways. It's a glandular malfunction... for this condition to appear suddenly at epidemic levels... was odd to say the least. If no contagious organism has been associated with this disease, what as the agent causing the epidemic? Logically you look for some new environmental factor that may be responsible. With hyperthyroidism , a logical factor was the new vaccine for feline distemper....when it first appeared , veterinarians simply added the distemper vaccine to others to make a combo.The result, I feel, is that the immune system in some cats broke down(.,... how would YOU feel getting vaccinated for chicken pox, polio, measles, mumps, whooping cough, smallpox and the flu all at the same time year after year?) today it remains part of a combo and cat continue to get hyperthyroidism more often than they once did. The pity is that the distemper vaccine could easily be modified to be administered on its own, and if given once, be effective for life without incurring much of a risk."