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To: Harrison Bergeron
I presume you say this has no relevancy to humans at this point because humans are not being studied, right?

Otherwise, I would believe there would be tremendous relevancy seeing as how so much in medicine is developed using animals....even the study of AIDS was modeled on studies of retro viruses in sheep....can't think of the retro virus right now that had enough 'similarities' or whatever for the scientists to work with.

173 posted on 01/08/2002 9:13:27 PM PST by Rowdee
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To: Rowdee
"I presume you say this has no relevancy to humans at this point because humans are not being studied, right?"

No. Not what I meant at all. Veterinary protocals are totally foreign to human medical protocols. Human vaccines are not re-administered annually throughout one's lifetimes as are veterinary vaccines. Until recently, no thought was given as to whether they are actually required at such frequent intervals or if, at some point, immunity builds to an adequate level, negating the need for annual vaccination. The rabies vaccination laws were written to protect humans, not animals. Long term effects of repeated annual injections of vaccines that might overstimulate and ultimately weaken an animal's immune system are only recently being looked at.

179 posted on 01/09/2002 6:34:01 AM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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