I thought that was the case. It lets you off the hook.
What hook would that be?
Have you finally realised that you've been calling chemotherapeutic agents (in particular, anthelmintics) vaccines, when they aren't vaccines at all? In that case, are you now intending to speak the same language as the rest of us?
Just like in humans, pets and livestock do not need what you call vaccinations. Tatyana also believes the immune response can't engage without medical raciness but that is all a lie. The immune response is 100% responsible for us being here right now. If it were not for our immune response being completely whole and independent from medicine man would have gone extinct a long time ago.
So, you're now talking about actual vaccinations, rather than anthelmintics. Fine. Don't you think it would be better if we
could produce vaccines against parasites, rather than having to keep dosing with anthelmintics? Cattle lungworm, which we have a vaccine for, is no problem at all now, because pretty much all calves are vaccinated. Gut worms and liver fluke however continue to be a problem because animals keep getting infected and keep having to be treated, and then the parasites develop resistance to the anthelmintic.
Vaccines are seldom used on livestock only when improper farming or ranching has been an issue.
Rubbish. Most farms vaccinate, although as I said there are some that do not, expecially organic farms. (Though the organic movement is beginning to see the light on that one.) Apart from organic ideology, the main reason not to vaccinate is that you have a closed herd or flock, and the disease is not present. This is good if you can maintain freedom from disease by biosecurity, because you save money on vaccine, and don't risk any side-effects. However such herds can experience severe disease outbreaks if the biosecurity fails.
Most farms, however, vaccinate.
D-worming is more than sufficient for keeping livestock disease free and healthy. This is most likely do to the fact that a body d-wormed is not only toxic enough to kill worms it is also toxic enough to kill most other pathogens. Ivermectin will likely be strong enough to cure any bacteria or virus if there is such a thing as a virus.
That's nonsense. Ivermectin is not an antibiotic, and of course it's not an antiviral. I see animals which have recently been treated with anthelmintics which have died of bacterial or viral diseases, quite frequently.
Did you read the SCOPS guidelines? About minimising use of anthelmintics to minimise development of resistance? Do you know about the organic rules, that avoid worming the animals? About trying to control parasites by rotating the grazing and so on?
I see animals with greater or lesser parasite burdens all the time. They don't have diabetes, by the way. But they do have liver failure and PGE and so on.
Did you have a point in there somewhere? Are you just making this up as you go along?
Rolfe.