Veterinarians want to offer more help with coronavirus. "We feel competent in a lot of areas and we are not solicited," regrets Doctor Fabrice Capber, veterinarian at de Colmar at the microphone of Europe 1.

It is a workforce that regrets that we do not use it more. Veterinarians claim to be able to support overworked caregivers in hospitals faced with the influx of coronavirus patients. They thus highlight the human and material resources at their disposal which could prove invaluable for the medical profession under stress. Recently negotiations are underway and everyone is awaiting orders which, as part of the state of health emergency, will make it possible to depart from the public health code and the carrying out of covid-19 tests in veterinary laboratories.

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"We feel competent in a lot of areas and we are not solicited, at least not as we would like", regrets on Europe 1 Doctor Fabrice Capber, veterinarian in Colmar, who explains that there are many similarities between humans and certain species in terms of serology. The test can detect the coronavirus in dogs, cats, rabbits, giraffes, pigs, lynxes, dromedaries or mice for example.

Veterinary biologists ready to test

"The dog's coronavirus has fairly similar symptoms: respiratory and digestive disorders. And we have an advantage over humans: we arrive fairly quickly in diagnosis," adds Fabrice Capber. And if he recognizes that it will be impossible for them to work in intensive care or to provide patient care, they assure that they could prove to be useful in particular for telephone regulation.

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Especially since veterinary biologists also continue to volunteer. Indeed, they say they are ready to carry out tests: "The reagents are the same whether it is human blood or animal blood for serology. All veterinary machines are inherited from human medicine, it is the same device. So there is no problem. "