In California, vaccination has started … for animals! Since the start of the pandemic, pet owners and zookeepers have feared the disease would develop among their animals. So in the Oakland Zoo, bears, tigers, pumas and ferrets have been injected with the coronavirus.
The first tests for this vaccine, specially developed for pets, were carried out last February on great apes at the San Diego Zoo. However, due to an insufficient mass of testers – around 100 when, by comparison, the Pfizer vaccine was injected into 48,000 people, the actual effectiveness of this serum has yet to be proven. For the moment, the strongest immune response occurs in dogs and cats.
Vaccinating animals is also ensuring that iThey will not be able to become a threat to humans. One wonders if some could not become “reservoirs”, in which the virus of the coronavirus can attach itself, or even mutate. This scenario has already occurred in November 2020 in Denmark, with disastrous economic consequences. More than 15 million mink, raised for their fur, had to be slaughtered.
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