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‘We should be vaccinating domestic and wild animal species against Covid‐19’
Author(s) -
Di Guardo Giovanni
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1002/vetr.1660
Subject(s) - covid-19 , vaccination , domestic animal , virology , animal species , biology , coronavirus infections , zoology , outbreak , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology
Giovanni Di Guardo argues that there is evidence of zoonotic spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 from wild and domestic animal species to people, and that to limit the development of new variants, vaccines should be developed for, and vaccination programmes include, species capable of becoming infected with and transmitting the virus.