Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70010 Valenzano, Italy.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale', 64100 Teramo, Italy.
Viruses. 2021 Feb 23;13(2):348. doi: 10.3390/v13020348.
A challenging debate has arisen on the role of veterinary expertise in facing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It seems totally unreasonable that in most countries, veterinary diagnostic and tracing forces were not deployed at the start to perform strategic tasks, which could have mitigated the outcome of this dramatic health emergency. Erasing the invisible line between human and veterinary virology will empower the response to future pandemics.
在应对 SARS-CoV-2 大流行的过程中,兽医专业知识的作用引发了一场颇具争议的讨论。在大多数国家,兽医诊断和追踪力量在疫情初期没有被部署来执行战略任务,这似乎完全不合理,如果这些力量被部署,可能会减轻这场戏剧性卫生紧急事件的后果。消除人类病毒学和兽医病毒学之间的无形界限,将增强我们应对未来大流行的能力。