Dubai tests vaccine to rid camels of deadly disease easily transmitted to humansSunday, 18 March 2018
A virus referred to as Mers carried by camels has been reported to
infect more than 1,750 people, more than 700 of which have died,
according to the International Society for Infectious Diseases. https://www.thenational.ae/uae/dubai-lab-testing-mers-vaccine-in-bid-to-stop-spread-from-camels-to-people-1.713765" rel="nofollow - The National
reported that Dubai’s Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (CVRL) is
working on creating a vaccine to combat the virus as most cases are
coming out of Saudi Arabia and the UAE where camels are widely popular
and come in close contact with individuals. “You
wouldn’t call it a disease in camels; they don’t get sick – they’re
infected, they are carriers of the virus,” the newspaper reported Dr.
Ulrich Wernery, the CVRL’s scientific director, as saying. He added that one-humped camels especially act as reservoirs for the virus and can easily transmit it to their owners. According to the https://www.thenational.ae/uae/dubai-lab-testing-mers-vaccine-in-bid-to-stop-spread-from-camels-to-people-1.713765" rel="nofollow - newspaper ,
baby camels develop antibodies from their mothers’ milk, and are
therefore immune to the virus. But by the time they are four to six
months old, they will have lost that immunity, and can easily catch the
contagious virus. The vaccine has been
tested in Germany and Spain on a limited number of camels and showerd
positive results. However, they plan on performing larger scale tests to
make sure the vaccine works. Dr. Wernery
told the newspaper that camel owners will be encouraged to get the
vaccine as the disease affects the camels’ performance in racing events.
They added that a similar vaccine to treat humans is also being
developed.
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