World Zoonoses Day goes unnoticed amid Covid-19 pandemic
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Significance of July 6 is lost as the world battles the contagion
An important day on July 6 marking the anniversary of Louis Pasteur’s first successful testing of the rabies vaccine on a human being, went largely unnoticed amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
July 6 is observed as World Zoonoses Day every year, marking the successful administering of the first rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur in 1885.
But the past 18 months have seen the world battling Covid-19, one of the worst zoonotic diseases to have struck humanity.
These diseases are transmitted by viruses with an animal origin to humans and include the SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, MERS and Ebola.
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