Dog owners in the US fear that vaccines cause “canine autism”
The anti-vaccine rhetoric that accompanied reactions to Covid-19 has now extended to dogs as well.
Just over half of dog owners surveyed, 53%, questioned the safety, effectiveness and/or necessity of vaccinating their beloved four-legged family members. The study, recently published in the journal Vaccine , involved a nationally represe Phone Number List ntative group of 2,200 American adults, of which 42% (924) made up the analyzed subgroup of dog owners. Overall, the results add to concerns that the anti-vaccine stances that erupted amid the pandemic have spread widely, calling even routine childhood vaccinations into question.
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This point is corroborated by the new study, which found that dog owners who were “canine vaccine hesitancy,” or CVH , were more likely to accept misinformation and falsehoods related to human vaccines. And those anti-vaccine beliefs were powerful. Responses from CVH dog owners suggested that 56% opposed mandatory vaccination against rabies, a 100% fatal disease.
In a particularly surprising finding, the study found that 37% of all dog owners believed that vaccines would cause their pets to develop cognitive problems, such as “canine/feline autism.”
To be clear, vaccines do not cause autism . This falsehood has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked over the years; The vast amount of information on vaccine safety indicates absolutely no relationship between vaccination and autism . Furthermore, “canine autism,” which is also known online as “canine dysfunctional behavior,” is not a real disease. A veterinarian who was not involved in the new study confirmed to Ars Technica that it is not an established diagnosis, although dogs can suffer from behavioral and cognitive disorders unrelated to human autism.
However, anti-vaccine ideology has clearly metastasized to our furry companions. The study's lead author, Matthew Motta, told Ars by email that he and his co-authors expected some vaccine hesitancy among pet owners, but still found the results "pretty surprising."
Motta, professor of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University School of Public Health, conducted the study with his sister, Gabriella Motta, a veterinarian at Glenolden Animal Hospital in Pennsylvania, and Dominik Stecula, a political scientist at Colorado State University.
The team set out to “put figures on the anecdotal stories we had become familiar with over the years,” Motta highlighted to Ars . But the results surprised them in two ways: first, “discovering how common reluctance about the canine vaccine is”; and second, “observe how powerful the CVH can be to explain why some people prefer not to vaccinate their pets and maintain positions that harm the universal application of the rabies vaccine.”
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Additionally, Motta was impressed by the responses related to “ canine autism ,” which, as he also noted, was not a valid diagnosis.
"On the one hand, perhaps this shouldn't be so surprising: These numbers are broadly consistent with our previous research, as well as other public opinion polls, comparing the number of Americans who believe the same thing about the measles, mumps, and measles vaccine. rubella,” he says. “Still, seeing so many dog owners wrongly transfer the worry of a human diagnosis to their pets was, in my opinion, quite shocking.”
Motta and his co-authors wrote that the results raise troubling questions about the health of pets who may not receive life-saving vaccines, such as those given against parvovirus. Also raising concerns is the possibility that rabies vaccination coverage in the United States will fall below the 70% level needed to prevent the deadly disease from spreading to humans from dogs, which are responsible for 99% of cases. cases of human rabies in the world. Finally, they also fear the additional stress and risks of illness that would result for veterinarians and their staff.
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