The vaccine for yersiniosis, a bacterial disease that affects both

Category: Assumption

Known Information:
Yersiniosis affects both dog and human
The vaccine available is in form of nasal spray.

Challenges:
Pet owners are unwilling to put their dogs through nasal spray vaccine.

Proposed Solution:
A new vaccine that can be administered orally for dogs.

Stated conclusion:
Yersiniosis is not severe in dogs , so inoculation of dogs using oral vaccine will not have significant public health benefit.

The stated conclusion state that even if the dogs are not inoculated , it wont affect general public health. Does that mean the infection in human and dogs are unrelated ? We need to find the answer choice that explains this.

A Any person who has received the nasal-spray vaccine can safely receive the oral vaccine as well - This does not talk about oral vaccine for dogs - Irrelevant.

B Yersiniosis is one of the most common diseases that affect pet dogs - Again this does not give information for our question. - Not the right choice.


C The oral vaccine is less expensive than the nasal-spray vaccine - Out of scope - we are not talking about price here.

D Humans do not contract yersiniosis primarily from dogs that have yersiniosis -If Humans do not contact disease from dogs , then not inoculating dogs will not have any impact on the public health benefit. This is the most logical choice we have seen till now.

E The oral and nasal-spray vaccines are equally effective - Again , this does not give information on how not inoculating dogs does not affect public health.


Ans: D

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