A Thai company plans to import 10,000 doses of the world's first and only anti-Covid-19 vaccine for pets.
Supreme Pharmatech Co, one of the country's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, has been in talks with the Russian manufacturer of Carnivac-Cov to import the vaccine into Thailand.
"This is a good opportunity to contribute to animal health as well, since many of us spend time in close proximity to animals," said Milint Wintarasiri, general manager of Supreme Pharmatech Co.
"It will help reduce the risk of potential infection, and the timing is opportune since human vaccination is underway.
"Therefore, a vaccine for animals is something that can help both humans and animals stay safe from the virus," she said.
Russia announced on March 31 that it had registered "Carnivac-Cov", the world's first coronavirus vaccine for animals, according to AFP.
According to Konstantin Savenkov, deputy director of Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervisory Service, the service has been testing the vaccine since October.
It has been shown to be protective against Covid-19 in dogs, cats, arctic foxes, mink, foxes and other animals, with few side effects.
Russian media reported that Thailand plans to import an initial batch of 10,000 doses of this pet vaccine.
Source: The Phuket News
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This isn't necessarily a bad thing if it can help slow the spread of the virus and its transmission between humans and animals… But it still raises concerns for several reasons:
1. We think about vaccinating animals while we lack vaccines for Thais.
2. This animal vaccine comes from Russia, and I wonder why the Thai government has so far failed to recognize and import the Russian "Sputnik 5" vaccine for its population.
3. Will the recognition and private orders (via Her Royal Highness the Princess, daughter of His Majesty the King) of the second SinoPharm vaccine (which appears to have few significant side effects) lead to massive orders of this vaccine to vaccinate the population, while news about the production in Thailand of the AstraZeneca vaccine (definitively abandoned by a majority of European countries and others in the world) is becoming increasingly rare and vague?
All these questions, like those being asked by tourists and travel agencies regarding the reopening of the country on July 1st for Phuket and November 1st for the rest of the country, have answers that remain vague, contradictory from various TAT and Health officials, or even simply nonexistent!
1/ If this vaccine works on mammals, it should also work on humans.
2/ While a few very rare cases of COVID-19 have been reported in pets, I wonder if animal-to-human transmission is possible. Has it been documented?
3/ Is this just snake oil? A scam to make a lot of money! We know some owners are capable of crazy things, preferring to vaccinate their own pet instead…
To VVDB.FR…
Hello… Yes, transmission of COVID-19 is possible from an animal to a human and vice versa: a pet can be infected by its owner…
Some scientists have strongly suggested that human contamination by the Cov19 virus originated from animals that "host" the virus without being ill, much like asymptomatic individuals in our society: they test positive for Cov19, can transmit the virus, but are not themselves ill…
Regarding wild animals that "contaminate" Covid-19 to humans, scientists have identified bats, minks, and the pangolin, which is believed to have served as an "intermediary of contamination" between the bat and the pangolin, and finally from the pangolin to humans (often cited by the Chinese as the origin of the epidemic in China).
Indeed, while close contact between bats and humans is rare, pangolins are exploited by humans in Asian countries.
Did pangolins transmit the coronavirus to humans?
Say experts rather than scientists; a scientist relies on rigorous study. An expert relies on their intuition…
The veterinary school in Maisons-Alfort found nothing in the tests it had launched. It even promoted the use of sniffer dogs to detect COVID-19.
For wild animals, it is believed that…
Mink farms have been euthanized in several European countries.
Utter nonsense… As usual.