Quote Originally Posted by carole

In an ideal world if everyone vaccinated we would beable to irradicate nearly all these diseases,well that is my personal belief anyhow.
I disagree with this. When Visa was a puppy, there was an older litter being raised with them. After their older litter recieved vaccines, one of the puppies developed parvovirus (the disease he was being vaccinated against GAVE it to him). After days of living with the other litter, Visa and her littermates were perfectly fine. The vet vaccinated the litter, the vaccines weakened the immune systems, and all of the puppies developed parvo. Some of these puppies died. If it weren't for the vaccines, none of these puppies would have developed parvo in the first place. Vaccinosis is not rare at all -- I hear about it all the time. When you are vaccinating, you are giving a part of the diseas e to the animal, therefore it is impossible to eradicate all diseases by vaccinations alone.