{"id":4495,"date":"2023-08-29T20:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T01:13:40","slug":"majority-of-us-dog-owners-now-skeptical-of-vaccines-including-for-rabies-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/29\/majority-of-us-dog-owners-now-skeptical-of-vaccines-including-for-rabies-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of US dog owners now skeptical of vaccines, including for rabies: study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hill<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study found that dog owners in the U.S. are growing more skeptical of vaccinating their four-legged friends \u2014 including to help prevent rabies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study, published Saturday\u00a0in the medical journal Vaccine<\/a>, found that 53 percent of dog owners had some concern about the safety, efficacy or necessity of canine vaccines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, 37 percent were concerned that vaccines could cause \u201ccognitive issues\u201d in dogs and may lead them to develop autism, a theory not backed up by scientific evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study found that more owners are experiencing Canine Vaccine Hesitancy (CVH), defined in the journal as \u201cdog owners\u2019 skepticism about the safety and efficacy of administering routine vaccinations to their dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCVH is problematic not only because it may inspire vaccine refusal \u2014 which may in turn facilitate infectious disease spread in both canine and human populations \u2014 but because it may contribute to veterinary care provider mental\/physical health risks,\u201d the study reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study warned that CVH is also associated with owners not vaccinating their dogs for rabies, \u201cas well as opposition to evidence-based vaccine policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey was conducted on a nationally representative group of 2,200 U.S. adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study stated it has been shown that a sustained vaccination of at least 70 percent of dogs could nearly eliminate human rabies cases in high-risk regions. However, the authors warned vaccination rates could eventually drop below 70 percent if CVH continues to rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study also warned that the \u201cphenomenon could have deleterious health consequences for both human and animal populations,\u201d as dogs, on a global scale, are responsible for 99 percent of rabies transmission to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabies is fatal once clinical signs appear and is estimated to cause 59,000 human deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study comes amid an uptick in concern over human vaccines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hill A new study found that dog owners in the U.S. are growing more skeptical of vaccinating their four-legged friends \u2014 including to help prevent rabies. The study, published Saturday\u00a0in the medical journal Vaccine, found that 53 percent of dog owners had some concern about the safety, efficacy or necessity of canine vaccines. Additionally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}