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.
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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Careful, Russia launches pets into space, one way.
Poor Laika, that's a ruff ending.
Sputnik vaccine... (Score:5, Funny)
In 2021, they put their Sputnik into a dog!
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In 1957, they put a dog into their Sputnik.
In 2021, they put their Sputnik into a dog!
Is this an "In Soviet Russia" joke?
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If you get bitten by one, do you get immunities? "In Soviet Russia, dogs vaccinate you."
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They should give it to Bodensee dog then, at the rate he is going, he could vaccinate the whole White House by next week!
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This will help save all those 80+ year old animals with pre-existing conditions.
Same silly probaganda as with humans. Turns out cats get long COVID, or at least serious long term effects too [theguardian.com] and, as with coronavirus, your fear should not be dying, but living the rest of your life unable to exercise, unable to work and possibly with some form of brain damage. Long COVID is evil and gets even some people who have no other symptoms [nytimes.com].
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I'm not saying this isn't 100% real, but for every "real" case of this there will probably be 5 that are psychogenic. It's going to be the new Lyme's Disease, where people will get some quack to tell them their weird, generic symptoms are really Lyme's even though they never got a bite, were never diagnostically tested for it etc... I know a few people who were convinced they had Lyme's and went down that whole rathole of insanity. And keep in mind, Lyme's disease is a real thing too, but most of the people
Re: Finally (Score:2)
Evil is a strange way to describe a virus and it's long term effects. It's certainly a shame, though.
It reminds me a bit of the Encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) epidemic that was around in the early part of the 20th century (in that a viral infection resulted in significant neurological and behavioral changes).
The question here is whether the the long covid symptoms are the result of an autoimmune response or something else, and more importantly, how can we treat them?
We probably can't, given ho
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Evil is a strange way to describe a virus and it's long term effects. It's certainly a shame, though.
I find this comment interesting and slightly strange. Does your comment come from a religious definition of evil? Some things are just facts of nature - sudden death through heart failure;; being eaten alive by a lion and so on some things seem designed to cause gratuitous suffering - cancer, paralysing strokes, COVID-19 ICU treatment and long COVID. Isn't that a good definition of a kind of evil?
Re:Will it be like Russia's human vaccine? (Score:5, Insightful)
The Sputnik V vaccine actually completed its Phase III trials roughly around the same time Moderna and Pfizer did -- last November. The Russian authorities jumped the gun in giving Emergency Use Authorization back in August, when just Phase II trials were done; but in the end the vaccine looks as safe and effective as any that have being used in the US or EU.
So the human vaccine is not just an empty propaganda stunt; it's a real technological achievement tarnished by political posturing. That's just another example of how Russia is a country that is blessed with more than its share of brilliant people, but is saddled with an ineffective, corrupt government.
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Well said. I am first in line to complain about Russia's government causing the US trouble... easy to see today with hackers and internet propaganda. But then you read a headline like this and you figure, damn, they got some kickass people over there, too. Hang in there regular people!
It's about time... (Score:1)
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]
Let me guess.. (Score:2)
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
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Supposedly a bunch of their next-generation "NATO Killer" tanks couldn't move off the start line in last year's May Day parade.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Re: Let me guess.. (Score:2)
Re: Let me guess.. (Score:2)
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.
Here you go (Score:1)
Probably can't afford it (Score:2)
So I'll keep making my cats wear masks. /s
Serves Russia right! (Score:1)
In soviet russia we Fox you! (Score:2)
In soviet russia we Fox you!
Boris dahling (Score:3)
Now we can vaccinate moose and pesky squirrel!
Not True (Score:2)
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I'm guessing from the context that they mean sars-cov-2
We aren't AI, we can use context.
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Would a human vaccine work? (Score:2)
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?
What about... (Score:2)
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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?
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I’m not so sure (Score:2)
"In Soviet Russia you put vaccine in dog" (Score:2)
Russia Unveils World's First Coronavirus Vaccine (Score:1)
Money maker! (Score:2)
This is going to make them billions in the US, where there are an unbelievable number of crazy people who fetishize their pets.