The rampant use of cow dung to treat COVID-19: Is India at the brink of a zoonotic disease outbreak?
J Med Virol
.
2021 Dec;93(12):6471-6473.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27258.
Epub 2021 Aug 16.
Authors
Mohammad Yasir Essar
1
,
Syeda Kanza Kazmi
2
,
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan
3
4
,
Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa
5
,
Shoaib Ahmad
6
Affiliations
1
Department of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan.
2
Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
3
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
4
Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5
Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
6
Department of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
PMID:
34351643
PMCID:
PMC8426735
DOI:
10.1002/jmv.27258
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Animals
COVID-19 / therapy*
Cattle
Feces / microbiology*
Hinduism
Humans
India
Religion and Medicine*
SARS-CoV-2
Urine / microbiology*
Zoonoses / microbiology
Zoonoses / transmission*