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More than half of U.S. dog owners expressed concerns about vaccinating their dogs, including against rabies, according to a new study published Saturday in the journal Vaccine. The study comes as anti-vaccine sentiments among humans have exploded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pets are now often considered to be a member of the family, and their health-care decisions are weighed with the same gravity. But the consequences of not vaccinating animals can be just as dire as humans. Dogs, for example, are responsible for 99% of rabies cases globally. Rabies, which is often transmitted via a bite, is almost always fatal for animals and people once clinical signs appear. A drop in rabies vaccination could constitute a serious public health threat.

In the new study, the authors surveyed 2,200 people and found 53% had some concern about the safety, efficacy or necessity of canine vaccines. Nearly 40% were concerned that vaccines could cause dogs to develop autism, a theory without any scientific merit.

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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 32 points 10 months ago

On the plus side, some of those owners are bound to be bitten.

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Updates on Rabies virus disease: is evolution toward “Zombie virus” a tangible threat?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7975959/

The irony of brain dead anti vaxxers becoming zombies

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any evolution or opportunity for it through any spread, especially in human adjacent vectors, is super bad news. A respiratory communicable rabies would be a potential "doomsday virus". We really don't want rabies picking up any new tricks.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

I mean... they kinda already are.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure, but with the much bigger minus that rabid dogs are also likely to bite a lot of perfectly innocent people, particularly kids, and even more particularly, kids who have crazy anti-vaxxer parents that might not get them a (human) rabies shot in time to save their life after a dog bite.

(note how many kids die of self-inflected gunshot wounds because their parents are too stupid to keep them safe from those)

[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

As a kid I remember a rabid dog confronting me in an alley. A cop showed up an shot him dead. You might think I would be traumatized, but actually thought it was kind of cool.

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

28 days later...

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago
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