COVID vaccination for animals

Good news.....

Experimental susceptibility of North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) to SARS-CoV-2
BioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.06.434226

Skunks and raccoons were intranasally inoculated or indirectly exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Both species are susceptible to infection; however, the lack of, and low quantity of infectious virus shed by raccoons and skunks, respectively, and lack of cage mate transmission in both species, suggest that neither species are competent SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs.

The story below describes a new situation where a mutant of Sars-CoV-2 found in minks (in Poland) spread to a person. This is why surveillance and potential vaccinations for animals is important for the safety of humans. Not doing so is short sighted and dangerous for us.

Story

Dr. Doug

dturm wrote:

There has been an initiative for the last decade (at least) called ONE HEALTH. It recognizes that the health of all species are inter-related as witnessed by the emergence of multiple new diseases that originated in animals and spread to humans. The initiative coordinates information and research to combat just these types of problems.

Dr. Doug

This is wonderful! Yes, scarily, we are all interconnected even more so today, than decades ago. In spite of the conspiracists, I truly believe Covid originated from a fresh meat market because species-to-species viruses happens often enough - and look how fast it spread around the world?!

;) :B

Exactly!

(Re: Maybe the plan is to save the intelligent species first?)

azdryheat wrote:
Vaccinating great apes before humans, not good with that.

Maybe the plan is to save the intelligent species first? :)

From the CBS Story:

Zoetis started development on a COVID-19 vaccine for dogs and cats after the first dog tested positive for the virus in Hong Kong over a year ago, a spokesperson told CBS News. It was deemed safe and effective eight months later — but testing had only been done in dogs and cats.

"Now more than ever before, we can all see the important connection between animal health and human health," the spokesperson said. "While thankfully a COVID vaccine is not needed for cats and dogs at this time, we have applied our early development work to help the Great Apes at the San Diego Zoo and in other species on an experimental basis for emergency uses."

"Vaccinating great apes before humans, not good with that." Does azdryheat have the medical knowledge to say this? That treating animals isn't important to human health?

IF YOU READ THE REPORT, the vaccine is an entirely different one from the one used in people. It was developed by a drug company ENTIRELY devoted to production of animal products. It in NO WAY takes away from ANY vaccinations to people.

BTW, I saw an article yesterday where a Coronavirus epidemic in PIGS that happened a few years ago resulted in the production of a vaccine and public health tools were used to stem that epidemic. The veterinarians were a little perplexed that they had not been contacted regarding the new SarsCov2

There has been an initiative for the last decade (at least) called ONE HEALTH. It recognizes that the health of all species are inter-related as witnessed by the emergence of multiple new diseases that originated in animals and spread to humans. The initiative coordinates information and research to combat just these types of problems.

Dr. Doug

Vaccinating great apes before humans, not good with that.

The USDA is keeping a list of reported confirmed cases in animals.

USDA AHPIS: Cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Animals in the United States

I've seen various reports where cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, quail and geese were challenged with live virus and these did not become infected. Other reports indicated that ferrets, cats, deer mice, hamsters, rabbits can become infected when challenged with the virus. I've not seen reports for sheep and goats.