A study has found that 37 percent of dog owners erroneously believe that vaccines may give their dogs autism.
The idea first arose in 1998 when a paper was published in thejournal suggesting that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children, based on testing of only 12 children. This paper was later retracted and labeled a"fraud" by the BMJ , and the author, Andrew Wakefield, had his U.K. medical license taken away. Several follow-up studies in the decades since have found no evidence to support the initial findings whatsoever.
Despite the efforts of medical professionals to set the record straight, the idea that vaccines may cause autism or other medical conditions has been hard to extinguish. This anti-vaccine rhetoric has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and further conspiracy theories surroundingand has led to a"spillover" effect of vaccine sentiments into pet vaccinations, with many of the human vaccine-skeptics also becoming pet vaccine-skeptics.
Anti-vaccine protestors carry signs outside 2022 Comic-Con International Day 3 at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in San Diego, California."The vaccine spillover effects that we document in our research underscore the importance of restoring trust in human vaccine safety and efficacy," Motta said in a statement.
Dogs cannot have autism, as it is a human condition: while they have been thought to get an autism-like disorder known as canine dysfunctional behavior , this is not considered an official diagnosis, and this too has no links to any vaccines, especially those generally given to dogs, including the rabies vaccine.
In the years after the fraudulent autism paper, MMR vaccination rates dropped sharply, leading to spiking numbers of the three diseases. Now, the hesitancy towards pet vaccinations is feared to lead to an increase in rabies.
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