Veterinary Vaccines : The Miracle of All Time

Citation: Ahmed Adel Seida. “Veterinary Vaccines: The Miracle of All Time”. EC Microbiology 3.1 (2016): 391-392. Veterinary vaccines till yet are the topic which did not take the real concern from the medical, veterinary, and public health communities. However, the world’s first vaccine developed by Edward Jenner in 1796 to describe the inoculation of humans with the cowpox virus to confer protection against the related human smallpox virus and illustrates the close bond between human and animal infectious disease sciences [1]. It is estimated that veterinary vaccines are available for over 400 diseases affecting mammals, birds and fish, including farm animals, pets and wildlife [2,3]. Through protecting animals from highly infectious diseases via using animal vaccines this will have a direct impact on the animal health, animal welfare, public health and economical, industrial, enabling efficient production of food animals to feed the growing human population, and greatly reducing the need for antibiotics to treat food and companion animals. There are several zoonotic animal diseases can be transmitted to humans, and control of these diseases, is beneficial to public health [4].