International Journal of Coronaviruses

International Journal of Coronaviruses

Current Issue Volume No: 1 Issue No: 3

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  • Coronavirus: A Practicing Veterinarian Prospective

    1 Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan 

    2 Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan 

    3 Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan 

    4 Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan 

    5 Faculty of Biosciences, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan 

    6 Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad Campus, Park Road, Islamabad 

    7 Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Lahore, Lahore 

    Abstract

    COVID19 is posing threat cosmopolitically encompassing more than 200 countries and making threat to entire population globally as pandemic. The cats, dogs and bovine are at threat which are close partner to human population. The veterinarians specially practicing are at risk when they encounter the sick animals. This study focus to the Pakistani veterinarian where animal population is under estimated or sometimes census is not performed. As Current population of domestic animals in Pakistan consist of 23.34 million buffaloes, 22.42 million cattle, 24.24 million sheep, 49.14 million goats, and with a huge population of dogs and cats without official census which may pose a threat to innocent population and even more a practicing veterinarian and veterinary paramedics are more at threat, if god forbids. There is need for further investigation its role and zoonotic perspective. Regarding practicing field veterinarians fighting without weapons against mass destructing pathogen and making vulnerability on wide.

    Author Contributions
    Received Jul 03, 2020     Accepted Jul 11, 2020     Published Jul 20, 2020

    Copyright© 2020 Mazhar Ayaz Muhammad, et al.
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    The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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    Citation:

    Mazhar Ayaz Muhammad, Mudasser Nazir Muhammad, Saleem Akhtar Muhammad, Aziz Mubashir, Niaz Kamal et al. (2020) Coronavirus: A Practicing Veterinarian Prospective International Journal of Coronaviruses. - 1(3):22-23
    DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3473

    Introduction

    Introduction

    The emerged pandemic is producing havoc in every folk of life and spreading more than 200 countries globally. As practicing veterinarian prospective pets especially dogs are being vaccinated against coronavirus and same is the case with cats; which makes these animals susceptible for potential carriers as described earlier ((Mallapaty 2020)3 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00984-8) and dogs are equally attributed for spread in humans (Shi, J. et al. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347 (2020)2 (Martina 2003)4. In the earlier Hora (2020)1 described the importance of nasal swabs from cats (see Nature http:// d41586-020-01077-2) as there are highest population of cats in Brazil and same is case with Bovine Coronavirus which could be as fatal as cats as many farmers at Pakistan and globally own cows and buffalos as their member of family, which shows its susceptibility with coronavirus. As Current population of domestic animals in Pakistan consist of 23.34 million buffaloes, 22.42 million cattle, 24.24 million sheep, 49.14 million goats, and with a huge population of dogs and cats without official census (http://www.sciencevision.org.pk/BackIssues/Vol9/22.livestock.) which may pose a threat to innocent population and even more a practicing veterinarian and veterinary paramedics are more at threat, if god forbids. There is need for further investigation its role and zoonotic perspective regarding practicing field veterinarians fighting without weapons against mass destructing pathogen and making vulnerability on wide.

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