Big Agri and Big Pharma, two sides of the same coin really, are moving to fast track mRNA vaccines for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). In May 2022, an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease was reported in cattle in Indonesia and has since spread to Bali. There is a real fear that this disease could reach Australia, threatening Australian cattle. This has led to a Biosecurity (Foot and Mouth Disease Biosecurity Response Zone) Determination 2022.  That is all good, but the biotech giants are on the way to having mRNA vaxxes for these diseases.

 

Now, I am not too science minded but I appreciate the attempts made by writers at the blog to try and get tother all the available information on the dangers of the Covid mRNA vaxxes, which, as I understand it, comes from the spike protein, which has even been found in human breast milk. My question is: would the same thing occur in cattle, so that beef, and cow’s milk will also have mRNA spike proteins in it? I do not know, but it would not surprise me.

 

But, there are alternatives. After I had finished milking, I fired up the old internet and sat in the tool shed getting material about how farmers in Africa and India deal with Foot and Mouth Disease, through natural means, as lack of money precludes the use of too much Western tech, maybe a good thing. I enclose some of this research below, but this is not intended as veterinarian advice, but for information purposes only.

 

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/mrna-in-your-food

“A couple of weeks ago the Deputy Premier, Minister for Agriculture of New South Wales (NSW), Australia announced that mRNA vaccines for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) will be fast tracked.

 

 

The NSW Department of Primary Industries have partnered with the Queensland Government, the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Meat and Livestock Australia. These will be the first mRNA vaccines for these diseases and will be created by US biotech company, Tiba Biotech.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW, Paul Toole wants to prepare for a potential outbreak and so has written to vaccine manufacturers to develop both vaccines by 1 August 2023.

Cattle are currently vaccinated for FMD using traditional live attenuated virus vaccines and there is no LSD vaccine in use in Australia. Therefore, Minister for Agriculture, Dugald Saunders, wants mRNA vaccines quickly because they are “cheaper and quicker to produce, highly effective and very safe.”

Except for there haven’t been any trials to see if these vaccines are highly effective and very safe because they haven’t been designed yet.

Meat and Livestock Australia managing director Jason Strong said “This type of vaccine technology may not require the longer testing and approval processes required for conventional vaccine development and importation as it does not use animal products”.

Sounds reassuring?

The NSW Government has spent 229 million Australian Dollars (144 million USD) on biosecurity so far this year.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, mRNA technology is an exciting development but it is relatively new and needs far more extensive testing.

Fact checkers from last year said vaccinated Mothers didn’t have mRNA in their breast milk. Studies this year contradict those fact checks and say they do. Before mRNA is pumped into every animal on the planet, I want long term studies showing what happens to that mRNA, whether it transfers via milk and meat, how long it takes for the mRNA to degrade and most importantly how it interacts with humans if it passes to them.

For all we know, the mRNA could transfer to humans, where our cells start producing proteins from the FMD and LSD viruses.

It’s opening a whole can of worms to not test these things and to fast track approval is ridiculous.

Looks like I will be eating bugs after all!”

 

No, it need not be so, there can be resistance to the Great Reset New World Order drive to destroy farming, using traditional methods.

 

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252696/#:~:text=Ethnoveterinary%20remedies%20of%20natural%20Soda,applied%20to%20the%20cleaned%20lesions.

Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2011; 8(2): 165–169.

Published online 2010 Dec 30. doi: 10.4314/ajtcam.v8i2.63204

PMCID: PMC3252696

PMID: 22238498

Use of Ethnoveterinary Remedies in the Management of Foot and Mouth Disease Lesions in a Diary Herd

DW Gakuya,¹ CM Mulei,¹ and S B Wekesa

Abstract

An outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) affecting 95 (57.2%) out of 166 cattle occurred in a medium-scale dairy farm in Kikuyu district, Kenya. Ethnoveterinary remedies of natural Soda ash solution (97% sodium bicarbonate), honey and finger millet flour were used to manage the FMD lesions. The lesions were washed with soda ash solution to remove the necrotic tissue after which raw honey and finger millet flour were applied to the cleaned lesions. The lesions were examined daily and those with necrotic material washed again with the Soda ash solution. Honey and finger millet flour were applied daily for three days. There was rapid healing of the lesions with the animals resuming feeding after three days. The fast healing of the lesions vindicates the use of these cheap, locally available and easy to apply products in the management of FMD lesions. However, more studies are needed to evaluate further their potencies.”

From India:

 

https://blog.apnikheti.com/protect-animals-foot-mouth-disease-home-remedies/

“Ravi Kumar 01 May-19 All, Livestock

Infectious diseases in animals are very dangerous. One of these contagious diseases is Foot-and-Mouth disease. This disease is generally more common in crossbred cattle. This is less in indigenous cows and buffaloes. We are going to share some of the symptoms of this disease so that animals can be treated quickly.

1.The first symptom of this disease is high fever (106°F-107 °F) due to which animal stops eating and milk production decreases.

2. After 2 days of illness, animal spits in the mouth. Animal cannot walk properly and you can see mouth ulcers in its mouth.
3. Within three to four days, these problems start getting all the animals.
4. This disease causes sudden death in calves.

Precautions and Treatment

1. Washing animals’ feet with water and alum mixture helps to decrease swelling and prevents the disease from spreading.
2. Make a paste from Marigold leaves, Tulsi leaves, garlic and lemon juice and apply on ulcers of Foot-and-Mouth disease. This paste helps in curing ulcers. Alternatively you can use the following precautions as well.

The diseased animal should be kept separately and at a clean place. The ulcers of mouth and feet should be cleaned with red solution and boro glycerine should be applied after that. Soft fodder should be given to the animal. Delay in treatment can cause worms in animals’ feet. In such cases, place cotton ball dipped in tarpin oil on the hooves. Get the animal vaccinated 2 times an year for prevention from this disease.

Source: GADVASU”

 

Here are developments in Australian reseaech:

 

https://researchoutreach.org/articles/promising-results-new-treatment-foot-mouth-disease/

 

“Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) is a viral disease that affects many farm animals, including cattle, buffalo and small ruminants. In many developing countries, farmers often don’t have access to preventative treatments, and outbreaks are common. Professor Emeritus Peter Windsor and his team at the University of Sydney, Australia, believes a new product called Tri-Solfen may be an inexpensive and effective solution to treat FMD, instead of the antibiotics currently used. After clinical trials in Laos and Cameroon, results have shown emphatically that when Tri-Solfen is applied to FMD lesions, infected animals return to eating and walking normally within just a few days.

Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) is an infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle, buffalo, pigs and small ruminants. It is thought that 32 million livestock are affected by FMD annually. The virus typically causes fever which can last for a few days, followed by blisters on and inside the mouth and on the feet that are incredibly painful and cause lameness, excessive salivation, lack of appetite, loss of body condition and occasionally, mastitis and abortion.

While developed countries like the UK, US, Canada and Australia work hard to maintain their FMD-free status, this disease is a common condition in many developing countries in Africa and Asia, with estimated losses rounding 7 billion dollars every year. Sadly, in these countries, farmers often don’t have access to preventative control programmes including vaccinations and they seek treatment methods for their sick animals.

In affected countries, use of antibiotics for FMD is common, but this approach increases the risk of creating long-term antimicrobial resistance with potential food safety risks when these animals are marketed. Sick animals can also be treated with painful disinfectants or anti-inflammatory drugs, but the benefits are limited. For the many farmers who don’t even have access to these, lesions caused by FMD are treated with painful traditional therapies, including scraping the lesions with tree bark or applying lemon Juice. These options likely increase the pain and suffering animals have to endure during outbreaks.

Given this current scenario, alternative management options for endemic FMD-infected countries are urgently needed. Peter Windsor, Professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, believes a new product called Tri-Solfen may be the answer. This product has been shown to effectively mitigate wound pain and has been registered in Australia and New Zealand to use during surgical procedures, including tail-docking, castration and dehorning.

 It is thought that 32 million livestock
are affected by Foot-and-Mouth disease annually. 

A new solution
Tri-Solfen’s formulation includes two topical anaesthetics: lignocaine and bupivacaine, as well as adrenalin and cetramide, mixed in a gel matrix. This blue gelatinous product is sprayed directly onto the wound, creating a long-lasting barrier over the lesions, numbing the pain, reducing infection and encouraging healing.

 

This elegant formulatiom offers both viricidal effects due to an acidic pH (around 2.7) and anti-bacterial properties coming from the antiseptic cetramide, cleverly avoiding the need for other treatments, including antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. Furthermore, lignocaine and bupivacaine, combined with adrenalin, provide rapid and prolonged pain relief and alleviate the initial sting from applying such an acidic product. This pain-free effect is estimated to last over 24 hours and is sufficient to kill or reduce the virus load without causing pain to the animal.

For the researchers, the perfect opportunity to set up two clinical trials to test Tri-Solfen arose when there was an outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease in Laos in April 2019, followed by a second outbreak in Cameroon in November 2019. In Cameroon, the study also compared the responses using a common antimicrobial known as oxytetracycline. In both cases, the trials were conducted in extensive cattle farms, where animals were free to roam and were rarely seen by a veterinary technician (para-veterinarian) or veterinarian.

In both Laos and Cameroon, Foot-and-Mouth disease can have devastating effects, perpetuating the cycle of smallholder poverty. Infected animals cannot be sold on the market, they have reduced value and the costly treatments currently used strain the finances of these smallholder farmers. In Laos, for example, losses may add up to 60% of the annual household income, particularly where farmers use antibiotics, causing severe financial impact on households just to treat Foot-and-Mouth disease.

Spectacular responses
Results from both the Laos and the Cameroon clinical trials were conclusive: Tri-Solfen enabled much faster healing of lesions caused by FMD. Lesions in Tri-Solfen treated cattle with FMD significantly reduced in size and almost entirely disappeared in less than ten days, without returning for a full two weeks after the initial infection.

As a consequence, these animals recovered their mobility without being lame and started eating almost immediately after treatment, suggesting this is a beneficial therapy to enable cattle to walk and gain access to water and feed. “There were spectacular responses to treatment, with immediate clinical improvement”, said Prof Windsor. “Treated animals re-commenced eating and walking within a few days due to more rapid healing of oral and feet lesions”.

In contrast, whilst animals treated with oxytetracycline in the Cameron study also managed to heal most of their lesions, these tended to re-appear after two weeks, most likely from the onset of secondary infections, with some animals were still lame and struggling to walk after 15 days of symptoms.”

 

There thus seems to be other options that need to be considered rather than mRNA vaxxes for cattle!