I never said China gave their people a SARS vaccination, there's never been one approved so how can they give them one? Just because someone has been licensed does't mean they graduated at the top of their class. Just within the last couple weeks I had a personal experience of my own as an example of that. My cats are like ancient, I don't recalled the exact years I got them but they are both somewhere between eighteen to twenty years old. One of them got a bacterial ear infection that turned into a upper respiratory infection. I took him to the vet, they gave him a antibiotic injection, put an antibiotic medication into his ear after cleaning it out. After a couple days he's feeling better, running around but he's sneezing all over the place as everything is loosening up which gave it to my other cat. I took that cat to the same vet but got a different veterinarian. First thing she does when she comes in the room is take a comb and comb the cat's hair then sprays the hair with water. She holds out the paper and says my cat has got flea's. I can understand that as a starting point when looking at what could be wrong as flea can make cats sick as they are carriers of stuff but that didn't seem to be her point so much ripping me for not using something to keep flea's off my cats which I tend to do during the summer months but not so much during the winter. The cat's old, she has long hair and doesn't groom like she use to as I think getting the hair balls is a bit to much for her. I have to groom her a lot during spring and cut any hairs that may start to snarl. Next thing she does is ask if the cat has had a rabies shot. I told her no. She then goes on to tell me all the dangers of not having your pets get a rabies shot. I really wanted to say look the cats like twenty years old, she's never had one and has survived all these years without one but I just said you may be right as if a bat gets in the house she does tend to try and deal with it. Finally she gets around to asking me what's wrong with the cat. I told her she's been laying under a bed sneezing and coughing since Saturday night and this is not like her. I told her the other cat was sick and I think he passed it to her. She said viruses tend to be viral but I pointed out that in the case of my other cat it was bacterial. She listens to the cats heart and lungs and says she doesn't hear anything. She then goes on to say she can do a x ray, blood test, etc., then leaves the room and comes back with a list of expensive stuff I can do ranging from eighty five bucks for a x ray to several hundred dollar costly other items but an antibiotic injection wasn't one of my choices. Though I knew what the cat needed obviously I wasn't getting it, feeling hopeless and pressured by their stares and insinuations of not being a good pet owner I opted to get an xray but I knew it wasn't going to show anything because the cat hadn't been sick long enough, we are talking a day and a half, two at the most given it took a half a day to notice she wasn't out being her usual self. Of course I was right. Then the vet comes back in and high pressure starts trying to sell me flea medication. I told her I buy my flea meds at Menards. She started in on you should never buy stuff from a store that could just be carrying flea meds that don't work. I told her they carry Frontline it's just that it's cheaper there. What she says next I could hardly hold back not wanting to laugh. She said you can't guarantee how long medications sold in stores sits in a warehouse somewhere, in the backroom or how long they've been on a shelf. That's the same exact tactic they taught us in cosmetology school to say to our clients when pushing expensive hair care products. As much as I wanted to say you don't know how stupid you sound to me right now I didn't...because I can tend to get that way when aggravated because all I really needed was for her to give the cat the same shot the other cat got. Then it back onto harping on me to get a rabies shot. I told her I'd consider it but right now I just had to be focused on getting them well right now and the cost associated with that as my other cat had another follow up appointment next week. The cost to take care of that cat exceed the cost of my other cat, it costed me a hundred and thirty three bucks for basically doing less to the cat then my other cat. The next day she's still under the bed sneezing away. I called them back and argued the point that the other cat had a bacterial infection and I was sure she got what the other cat had. I wouldn't probably had been so adamant except she's so old that if this got set in she may not be able to fight it off. Finally they caved and said I could bring in the cat for a shot. That visit drove the total cost to one hundred and seventy seven dollars. Now I was forty four dollars over what the other cat cost. Within two days though she was back to her normal self pestering me to be petted while I blogged. So what's the difference here is one vet could identify the difference between a what bacterial infection was and the need for a antibiotic, the other vet just couldn't see the causation and effect. She was so stupid also asking me questions like what's changed in your house that could get your cat to sneezing, did I get new carpeting, change cat foods, different litter.....how about what changed was I have another sick cat and it's well established cats transmit viruses to other cats. She asked who told me that and I told her I looked it up on the internet up to and including cats can transmit bacterial infections. She then had the gall to say to me do I believe everything the internet has to say.....I told her no but I don't just read one thing I read several articles are you claiming every vet who wrote an article is wrong.....and it's moments like that, when I am highly aggravated that I wanted to add except you but I knew I'd never get the shot....which I should have said since I didn't get it anyway until the next day. Her inept attitude could have cost my cat her life, she was young versus the vet I had days prior but still despite holding a degree in this instance failed her miserably. If I had been her I'd said lets start with giving this cat an injection like the other cat just to be safe, if she doesn't get better we can do x rays and other test, not lets do a meaningless xray and if she doesn't get better...how's the xray going to help her get better? This was so obvious a blind vet could have seen it yet here we are having people like her in charge of making decisions on the health of one's pets. Believe me she knows now as I made it a point to call and tell them she should try listening when someone's trying to tell her the reasoning behind wanting the antibiotic because we were dealing with a bacterial infection here not a viral infection. I told them this was in no way a reflection upon the other vet, I felt the other cat got exceptional care but I had to speak out because she could have killed my other cat considering how old she was. They defended her actions though and even told me I couldn't come there anymore but you better believe that young vet learned something that day and moving forward I hope I had enough influence in the process for her to step back and learn from this experience which if she did is worth way more if I save another pets life than the inconvenience of finding another vet. People like her are running all over the place in the world. They go up against the grain of knowledge and barely pass a marking grade. They even have a term for that, being the bottom of the class. It's not like I haven't had some basic knowledge on bacteria, we had to learn and decipher the differences between bacteria's causes and effects when I went to electrology school. When you are going to have your hands all over on and be in someone's face you learn identification of and basic warning signs of infections. I'll tell you it felt pretty good when they harped at me she was a licensed professional and I told them so was I and that I held two not one professional license which was what prompted to remind them just how really stupid she sounded with her warehouse gig. Yeah I don't think she's ever going to forget the day she endangered my cats life. Somethings in life you just don't learn in a classroom. In closing I'd say there's a high probability that many of those internet scientist you won't find them writing articles for the lancet.