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Russia Unveils World's First Coronavirus Vaccine For Dogs, Cats and Other Animal (washingtonpost.com) 46

Hmmmmmm writes: Russia has registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine for dogs, cats, minks, foxes and other animals, the country's agriculture safety watchdog said Wednesday. Called Carnivak-Cov, the vaccine was developed by scientists at the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, also known as Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's Tass News Agency said.

Rosselkhoznadzor deputy head Konstantin Savenkov said Wednesday that this would be the world's first authorized for widespread animal inoculations. The vaccine could be mass produced as soon as April, although the agency did not say when it would be on the market. 'Carnivak-Cov, a sorbate inactivated vaccine against the coronavirus infection is the world's first and only product for preventing covid-19 in animals,' Savenkov told Tass News. Two U.S. companies, New Jersey-based veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis and the North Dakota-based Medgene Labs, have also been developing coronavirus vaccines for use among minks and other animals. Scientists in Russia launched clinical trials in October and tested the vaccine on dogs, cats, foxes, including Arctic foxes, and minks, among other animals. Mass production of the vaccine could begin in April, according to Savenkov.

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Russia Unveils World's First Coronavirus Vaccine For Dogs, Cats and Other Animal

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  • As long as the bill isn't being paid by tax dollars, I say let those rubes milk themselves financially!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

  • 99% chance that this is their "Sputnik" vaccine (for humans) with a slightly modified label.

    They did some impressive stuff during the cold war but Russia just doesn't do much tech any more. Anything they still have is pretty much due to momentum from the USSR, and I'd estimate that it's dissipating with a half-life of around 10 years.

    File this in the same folder with Putin's "hypersonic, unstoppable, untraceable, infinite-range nuclear missiles". Yeah. I'm not losing any sleep. They're still a wo
    • Supposedly a bunch of their next-generation "NATO Killer" tanks couldn't move off the start line in last year's May Day parade.

    • 99% chance that this is their "Sputnik" vaccine (for humans) with a slightly modified label.

      It's not. The Sputnik virus is very cool, almost as cool as AstraZenica's Oxford virus. They both use the shells of cold viruses with RNA inside them. This solves all the problems that make Moderna and Pfizer unstable because they use unprotected RNA. In the case of Sputnik a human cold virus in AZ's case a chimpanzee virus. The AZ case is probably slightly better because there's almost no chance your immune system will immediately attack it before it can protect you, however they both have benefits an

      • Nah, they still have several thousand nukes. That makes them dangerous.

        I'm not dismissing them entirely, but they are clearly regressing to the mean. Putin cares about nothing except command and control. He tolerates barely enough economy and education in order to maintain said command and control, but he needs to keep the people slightly desperate or they will start to demand more.

        When the ruler/s have no interest in their country beyond maintaining their rule, the outcome is VERY predictable. In
    • Didn't RTFA, did you?
      This is an inactivated virus vaccine, classic stuff. Sputnik V is a vector vaccine, which is a completely different technology.

    • by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      The problem is, dogs and cats can't get COVID-19. They can be a carrier of it, but they don't get sick from it. There have been maybe a few cases where someone got sick from a pet cat or pet dog. The presumed method of transmission is not respiratory, but rather the virus was carried on their fur. While surface transfer isn't a primary mode of infection, it's still possible to transmit it through surfaces, which include pet fur.

      However, minks do get infected, and many mutations have happened during human tr

      • The problem is, dogs and cats can't get COVID-19.

        They can and do.

        https://www.vet.cornell.edu/de... [cornell.edu] :
        The severity of disease caused SARS-CoV-2 infection in cats is unclear. In the naturally occurring case of feline COVID-19 from Belgium, the cat developed GI and respiratory problems and recovered within nine days. In the two cats from New York, both had mild respiratory illness and are expected to make a full recovery. In addition, the experimentally infected cats did not show evidence of virus in their lungs, but rather in their upper airways, and they d

      • My sister in law is a vet tech. She had one client who tested positive for sars-cov-2 and the client had multiple cats all showing signs of respiratory illness at the same time. I donâ(TM)t think itâ(TM)s coincidence that multiple cats all showed signs of infection when the owner has Covid-19. Itâ(TM)s anecdotal at this point but I donâ(TM)t think itâ(TM)s fair to say that cats and maybe dogs wonâ(TM)t have issues from the virus.
    • 99% chance that this is their "Sputnik" vaccine (for humans) with a slightly modified label.

      100% chance you're wrong laddie.

      Hint: look at the date the Washington Post article was posted.

  • s, there ya go, I think you forgot that. Here's a few more in case you need them: sss
  • So I'll keep making my cats wear masks. /s

  • Spew anti-vax disinformation and they can't get rid of their own vaccine. Hey, if Sputnik V is good enough for a dog, it's good enough for me. Next we'll hear Sputnik has been approved for Martians. Don't everybody move for it at once. /s
  • In soviet russia we Fox you!

  • by know-nothing cunt ( 6546228 ) on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:36PM (#61222110)

    Now we can vaccinate moose and pesky squirrel!

  • You know, I don't think this is right. I remember seeing a picture of a vial of a veterinary coronavirus vaccine on the web early on in the pandemic. I'll post now and go looking for it. I'll give a link if I find it. Maybe it was for cows or something.
    • by methano ( 519830 )
      I was right. These have been around for years. Just type "veterinary corona virus vaccine" into Google and you can find all sorts of articles. Do an image search and you'll see this stuff has been around. OK, nothing to see here, move on.
    • Check the article date.
  • In general, would a vaccine that works in humans work for animals that can get the same disease? Or does something have to be changed?

  • Bats? I mean theres this cave in china full of bats with all sorts of coronavirus. That virus lab in wuhan even admitted to studying them. Just not the one particular strain they were asked about. All the other SARs versions sure. Maybe we should vaccinate the source animals?
    • by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

      There are bats with coronavirus infections on most continents. One of the reasons bats are a common source of new viruses is because their immune systems work differently than most other mammals. And even if they didn't, who's going to go and inject all the bats?

      • by e3m4n ( 947977 )
        Didnt we just say that theres a shit ton of people pouring in across the border wanting to do the jobs nobody else wants to do? I think you just labeled one of those jobs.
  • I had heard the main reason frogs didn’t get vaccinated was they were afraid of being turned into straight humans.
  • "Then dog vaccinates you!" Though that would be cool if a dog could give you antibodies by licking your face, or hand. "Who wants a treat?" lol
  • LOLOL. They are NOT first for Coronavirus Vaccine for cats and dogs. Boehringer Ingelheim / Merial whom I work for has been making it since 2020. We don't make it minks, foxes.
  • This is going to make them billions in the US, where there are an unbelievable number of crazy people who fetishize their pets.

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