- MOSCOW, Russia (ITAR-TASS)
- Ten millions doses of Hoof and Mouth anti-aphtha vaccine for cattle are
produced each year at Federal State Unitary enterprise Schchelkovsky Bio-Kombinat,
the biggest Russian biologics corporation.
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- Specialists Anna Kuksenko and Yelena Raykova in a sterile laboratory,
preparing the components to make the Hoof and Mouth anti-aphtha vaccine.
Photo by Andrei Gorelovsky (ITAR TASS)
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- In a department of Schchelkovsky Bio-Kombinat where the anti-aphtha
Hoof and Mouth vaccine is packed into bottles. Just 2 to 4 ml of this vaccine
is sufficient to prevent the Hoof and Mouth disease and to protect an animal
from being hit by the aphtha virus. Bio-Kombinat also produces more than
30 other various strong vaccines for safe, effective treatment of livestock
and birds. Photo by Andrei Gorelovsky (ITAR TASS).
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- A cow afflicted by aphtha (Hoof and Mouth). Archive photo reproduced
by Andrei Gorelovsky (ITAR TASS)
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- The Hoof and Mouth aphtha virus, magnified 35,000 times by electron
microscope. Archive photo reproduced by Andrei Gorelovsky (ITAR TASS)
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- Update
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- From Julia Huseynova jh@pisem.net in St. Petersberg,
Russia
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- Dear Jeff,
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- One of visitors of your site, Matthew Reardon, sent me
an e-mail concerning the topic. I send you both question and answer.
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- Matthew Reardon wrote:
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- "Are you serious about a cure for Foot & Mouth
Disease? If it is true then, give the info to NPR (national public radio)
& to talk stations like Imus & Jay Sevrins. The slaughtering is
cruel & senseless when there is a cure. And I worry about it affecting
domesticated pets... so do something if what you say is true".
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- My answer:
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- First of all, I must to inform you that I am from St.
Petersburg in RUSSIA, not in Florida. I don't know how to contact NPR and
am unfamiliar with Imus or Jay Sevrins. So, I doubt I could do something.
I'm a newspaper archivist, this is a minor post without much influence.
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- According to the medical site www.infectology.spb.ru,
the Foot & Mouth viral infection IS indeed treatable - with corticosteroids
(medicaments containing synthetic hormones). Those medicaments are costly.
And people look with suspicions on meat that might content hormones. Perhaps
these are two reasons why the livestock is slaughtered and not treated.
In other words, if we consider the cattle as a source of food for us, the
mass slaughter instead of treatment is explainable (which doesn't means
approvable!). But if we consider the cattle as animals, live creatures,
then they should be treated! They cannot be eaten safely after they regain
health, but their posterity is consummable.
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- * Foot & Mouth is NOT deadly, but without treatment
it can take chronic form.
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- * F&M is highly contagious only when animals are
concerned, all kinds of animals with hoofs: domesticated (cows, sheep,
goats, swine, horses) and wild (moose, deer, maral, reindeer).
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- * A man can catch the F&M virus by consuming raw
milk or by contact of ill animal's saliva with minor skin scratches. If
a cat or a dog would drink raw milk from ill cow, perhaps it would catch
a virus, too, but there's no data about such cases.
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- * F&M is NOT transmitted from man to man! In old
times, before the automobile age, people rode ill horses without fear.
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- The epizootic scale of F&M is due to the fact that
the cattle was not immunized because those who must give money for this
decided to cut "useless" expense. Immunization of still healthy
animals and treatment of ill ones - that's what should be done, and I think
the damages and losses from producing large amount of vaccin and corticosteroids
will be not so heavy in comparizon with persrective to exterminate absolutely
all cattle and pay damage to all farmers. Not to mention the moral side
of these actions.
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- With respect, Julia Huseynova from St.Petersburg, Russia
jh@pisem.net
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