Rabies vaccinations are required by law in some states every three years and in other states annually.

As children we receive vaccinations and as an adult an occasional booster vaccination. Humans have the ability to produce an immune response from a vaccination that protects them for life. Why do we require our pets to be vaccinated so often?

Pet vaccination schedules need to be supported by research.

A Letter from Kris Christine, Founder, Co-Trustee of the Rabies Challenge Fund.

Greetings,


The goal of The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust is to extend the legally required interval for rabies boosters to 5 and then 7 years, based on the findings of the rabies challenge studies currently underway at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.  If the studies' results demonstrate that the rabies vaccine confers 5, and possibly 7, years of immunity, there would be a significant impact on controlling rabies and reducing adverse reactions associated with the vaccine.

 

Today I am writing to ask for your help.  The Rabies Challenge Fund relies on donations to finance the multi-year challenge studies that began in November 2007.  Due to the economic downturn, the Fund has a $125,000 shortfall for the third year of the studies, scheduled for this fall.  This deficit threatens the future of the research.

 

Costs for the studies' third year are $175,000.  Since January, we have raised nearly $50,000 of that amount.  We need to have eighty percent of the total funding for the year's budget in hand to begin the third year of the studies.  Please contribute what you can, as soon as you can.  All donations received will be used to finance the direct research costs of the rabies challenge studies.

 

With your help, we can raise the $125,000 necessary to complete the third year of the 5 and 7-year rabies challenge studies.  Tax-exempt donations can be mailed to The Rabies Challenge Fund, c/o Hemopet, 11330 Markon Drive, Garden Grove, CA 92841.  Credit card donations can be phoned in to Hemopet (specify they are for The Rabies Challenge Fund) by calling (714) 891-2022, ext. 13.

 

            Thank you for your support of this important work.

 

Sincerely,

 

Kris L. Christine

Founder, Co-Trustee

The Rabies Challenge Fund

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Successful efforts by The Rabies Challenge Fund over the past year leading to changes in state rabies laws/municipal ordinances to the 3 year national standard:

 

                                                Cheyenne, Wyoming

                                                Wichita, Kansas

                                                State of Alabama

                                                State of Arkansas

                                                State of Rhode Island

 

The Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization [Fed. EIN # 84-6390682].