Petition to Cancel Seresto Registration; Notice of Availability
2021-07-20 2021-07-30 2021-07-28 2021-07-28 2021-07-28 2021-08-16 2021-08-20 2021-08-20 2021-08-20 2021-08-20
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I lost 2 of my dogs within 2 months of using this product both to organ failure and they were healthy prior so it came as a complete surprise. This is terrible and I feel very upset that the government would allow unsafe products  my name is jerry kurtz,i had a beautiful male presa canario named baron.he was a perfectly healthy dog.when he was a year old,i put a seresto collar on him,12 hours later he had a massive seizure.i took him that morning to my vet,he said he had a seizure.i questioned him,how come my dog had a seizure after putting on this collar.he put him on an animal seizure pill.they kept getting worse.i took him to the best animal hospital in akron ohio.he spent the night.the vet told me he he had epilepsy,they put him on a human drug.he kepy getting worse.he was on on 2 animal seizure drugs,and a human seizure drug.his seizures kept getting worse.he had 14 back to back seizures on 10-29-2019,he was born on 4-28-2017.he was 2 and a half years old.i loaded my best friend into my pickup truck having a massive seizure,he was 135 pounds,and took him to my vet,and had him put down,he was 2 and a half years old.isnt it kinda strange,i had a perfectly healthy dog,12 hours later after putting the seresto collar on him,he had a massive seizure.i had over 8 thousand dollars worth of vet bills and pills,that doesnt include having him creamated,or the 2 thousand dollars i paid for him.please take these collars off of the shelves,so no one else has to go through what i did.thank you,jerry kurtz. Hello, this comment is to support the withdrawal of Seresto (and similar products) from the market. My family lives in rural coastal CA. This is about our 11 year old Pesto. Bad fleas this year. Typically we havent treated him in the past and he mostly just scratched. About 4-5 years ago we had Seresto for the first time and he only wore it about a week and then we thought his bad skin area above the tail was getting worse so we took it off. In June 2021 we needed to help him and us as we were all getting bit more than normal So on Tuesday June 22, 2021 evening I put his new and not counterfeit Seresto collar on him per instructions. I was looking forward to the end of our flea misery. Instead on Thursday afternoon he began limping a little and by the evening, 48hr after Seresto, he could not walk all of a sudden. (Video 1) I am so glad I put it together and googled. Immediately alarmed by the reports, I took it off and wiped him with wet towel, offered water which he didnt want. I let him rest, about 15 min without collar he got up and drank water. About 2 hrs later he moved better. Next morning he walked almost normally! I washed him and 24 hrs after collar was taken off, he even chased a tennis ball happily. This is a clear confirmation of the immediate negative and positive response of his body to the pesticides in the collar when used and when taken off. I am mad that this is allowed to happen, and any warnings are mentioned just as minor skin irritation. Underneath the animal skin, their body is being poisoned The product should be taken off the market, and not just for the sake of the animals, but us humans too. We have small kids, everyone touches his coat, there is no way to avoid touching the collar, having the powder spread on household couch/bed fabrics etc.Thanks for your effort to prevent more animal deaths from use of the dangerous pesticides.Jana Zucchi Einstein was a 4.2lb, 2 yr old lively and healthy Maltese. Around May 2018, his prior vet put him on Bravecto (Merck)  Interceptor (Elanco) when he was 5 months and weighed less than 3.5lbs. A new vet in July 2019, told me Einstein didnt meet the weight requirement and recommended Seresto collar for small dogs. Seresto collar for small dogs is up to 18lbs. I dont believe that a 4lb dog metabolizes medication the way a 18lb dog does. How does a licensed vet not know that Einstein who weighed under 4lbs at the time should not take Bravecto?! We dont give the same flu shot dosage to a 5 yr old and a 30 yr old. Around April 2019, Einstein wore the Seresto collar. May 2019, Einstein developed skin issues. These appeared to be one-offs so I didnt make the connection and neither did the vets. June 2019, he began to circle often during his walks and at times, lose balance when he attempted to relieve himself. His circling, energy level, decrease in appetite, nausea and loss of balance continued to increase to warrant a vet visit on July 11, 2019. On July 16, 2019, I reported to the vet Einstein slept with his head against the wall.By mid-to-late July 2019, Einstein would fall trying to urinate because of his frequent circling. Other symptoms included coughing, shivers/tremors, not eating, and physical weakness. Physical exams were done, medications added with no relief. July 29, 2019, we were referred to a neurologist for possible Shaker syndrome. At this point, Einstein at 3lbs, could barely walk.On August 1, 2019, Einstein went to a neurologist to have a MRI/CSF. MRI/CSF results showed obvious brain inflammation/damage to include partial vision loss. Einstein was monitored overnight at the hospital and by next afternoon, he was able to balance enough that he could walk. Einstein had to take daily medications - immunosuppressive and chemotherapy drugs: Prednisolone and Cyclosporine twice/day and every 3-4 weeks, Cytosar.November 25, 2019, Einstein had his second MRI that revealed brain atrophy and enlargement of the right lateral ventricle, essentially a slight improvement from his initial MRI but persistent inflammation still there. Because I wanted to protect Einstein and do my best to keep him healthy and the vet and the neurologist said it was ok, I put a Seresto collar on him in approximately December 29, 2019. By early January 2020 Einstein again lost his balance, started circling and developed a severe head tilt. I took off his collar as soon as I could as I suspected it was Seresto.His symptoms were deemed to be progressing. Einstein wasnt improving much after his treatment and subsequently added another medication, Leflunomide in February 2020. Einstein lost the use of his hind legs and I rushed him to the neurologist on February 7, 2020, where the neurologist determined that multifocal was worse on his left brainstem and MUE continued to progress. Our follow up visit on February 10, 2020 was mostly observation of Einstein and to discuss other treatments, medications and potential outcome. A consultation included an oncologist for potential radiation therapy but determined the success rate would be low. The neurologist gave Einstein less than 25% survival and predicted that seizures would appear soon and ultimately kill him. Like Johnson  Johnson and Purdue Pharma, Bayer/Elanco need to be fined for their negligence and lack of accountability, transparency and ethics/. Studies have shown that the collar is also harmful to humans. If Seresto collars were meant for kids, it would be off the market and class action lawsuits, wrongful death claims would already be filed. All of us consider our dogs to be family, not like family. I have lost a family member, akin to a child. I know without a doubt that if I did not put his collar on, he would be alive AND healthy. Seresto, Bayer, Elanco et al are negligent. They knowingly knew or shouldve known the harmful chemicals used for the collar induced negative side effects in dogs and humans to a degree that it shouldve been deemed adverse to the point that in good conscience for the safety of the public, should not have been available. But they ignored this and put the product into market, misleading consumers to believing the product passed rigorous tests and therefore, safe. The lack of integrity caused emotional and physical distress and death of a living being. So, please, I ask...I demand...I need Seresto off the market for good.  I have 2 dogs, ages 9 and 5. They have both been perfectly healthy up until last month when I put new serresto collars on them both ( purchased from Chewy.com). Within a few days, our older smaller dog started presenting very strange paranoid behaviors which are still occurring. ( I just took collars off them both today).She randomly runs away with her tail underneath her and hides which is extremely abnormal for our normally happy and affectionate little love. Both dogs have been on and off throwing up, with our younger guy coughing and hacking a lot. Serresto works for keeping fleas and ticks at bay, but it certainly is not worth the life of my pets. This is just another avenue of science deniers plying the public with misinformation to cause fear over another flea medicine. The issue is with counterfeit products and that is where the focus should be.  I hope they take this product off the Market. My dog was so sick with vomiting. We took the coller off and in a couple of hours he was better. Worse stuff ever. And I handle my dogs and I was felling ill. This is such a danger to animal well being.Ive seen many dogs with reactions as I own a pet care service and handle many different pets.  The EPA has historically failed pets.  I hope that you will do the right thing cancel the Seresto registration before more pets die or become ill.  It is senseless and inexcusable that approx. 1700 beloved pets have died due to this product.  How many class action lawsuits and complaints need to be filed before you take action?  The chemicals in these collars are dangerous.  The company is about profit and is clearly not going to do the right thing.  You need to act now. please discontinue use of seresto collars.  These chemicals are dangerous and not beneficial to the environment we live in.