COVID vaccination for animals
San Diego Zoo vaccinate great apes. We have discussed many animal species that also can contract SarsCov2 including primates, cats, mink, ferrets and to a lesser degree dogs. Zoetis (a major a...
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I copy/pasted this from Dr Doug's article:
"And while mass vaccination activities against COVID-19 are currently underway on a global level, we are still not yet sure how this pandemic (and its causative virus) will end. In other words, highly touted concepts of herd immunity and viral eradication are increasingly seen as unrealistic when prevalence, genetic diversity and pervasive animal reservoirs are taken into account."
Given how many Americans in particular, refuse to get vaccinated - is "herd immunity" even going to happen? Although this article certainly put a new twist on that thought....
Also - I find it strange that two weasels gets Covid (mink/ferret), while another (skunks) doesn't....
"And while mass vaccination activities against COVID-19 are currently underway on a global level, we are still not yet sure how this pandemic (and its causative virus) will end. In other words, highly touted concepts of herd immunity and viral eradication are increasingly seen as unrealistic when prevalence, genetic diversity and pervasive animal reservoirs are taken into account."
Given how many Americans in particular, refuse to get vaccinated - is "herd immunity" even going to happen? Although this article certainly put a new twist on that thought....
Also - I find it strange that two weasels gets Covid (mink/ferret), while another (skunks) doesn't....
