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NATIONAL POST, March 31, 2020: Zoonotic pathogens, like the coronavirus causing COVID-19, are infectious microorganisms that can spread between humans and animals. These pathogens present concerns for disease outbreaks, since previously-unknown viruses have the potential to jump from wildlife into the human population with little or no warning. Although most strains of coronavirus only cause the common cold, two particular stains have been responsible for more severe diseases prior to the identification of COVID-19: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) in 2002-2003 and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV), first reported in 2012.

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Global’s Minna Rhee gets an inside glimpse at Virox and the technology that kills COVID-19 in under 1 minute with no odour or volatility.

“Our competition is not brands, it is legacy chemistries, chemicals that have been used for decades, sometimes 50, 60 years that have remained unchanged. All the while the bugs are mutating but the chemicals stayed the same. So it’s not terribly difficult to disinfect a surface. It’s difficult to disinfect a surface without hurting the surface or the person doing it and the environment post use.

…If you take a look at SARS from 2003 and you take a look at where we are today there’s been a number of mini outbreaks in between there. So you had MERS in the Middle East. Again, another virus transmitted from an animal. And then in between there you’ve had community outbreaks of MRSA, VRE, the infection prevention experts call it the bug of the week club. They do not expect that this is the end. This is just possibly the new norm. All of this activity will make people more prepared, more aware, and you’re gonna see different procedures, processes put in place in terms of state of readiness.”

RANDY PILON, President and CEO, Virox Technologies Inc. March 23, 2020

News Release

Contact: Jackie Harris
Executive Director, Animal Health
Oakville L6H 6R1
Phone: 1-800-387-7578 Ext. 225
JHarris@virox.com

VIROX ANIMAL HEALTH™ ANNOUNCES EDUCATIONAL WEBINAR WITH DR. JASON STULL AND DR. SCOTT WEESE

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) IN VETERINARY AND ANIMAL GROUP SETTINGS: PROTECTING PEOPLE AND ANIMALS

March 16, 2020

Oakville, ON: Due to the announcement of the global COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization, Virox Animal Health™ has organized an educational webinar featuring top infection prevention and epidemiology experts. The webinar is scheduled to take place on Thursday, March 19^th at 2:00pm Eastern Time, developed and presented by Jason W. Stull, VMD, MPVM, PhD Diplomate ACVPM and J. Scott Weese, DVM DVSc DipACVIM.

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SITUATION

In late 2019, an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, China was identified.  It is now understood that this outbreak is associated with a Novel Coronavirus that is now identified as COVID-19.  Coronaviruses are of significant concern owing to the fact they are zoonotic in nature, meaning they can infect humans and animals¹.  Prior to the identification of COVID-19, there were six (6) strains of Coronavirus capable of infecting humans with only two (2) strains capable of causing severe disease; severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV)¹.

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African Swine Fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease that has been effecting the domestic and wild pig populations across Europe, China and Southeast Asia. Sadly, ASF has been devastating the pork industry in these countries, as there is no treatment or vaccine for this disease. In anticipating the potential for an outbreak to strike in North America, which would have a significant economic impact on the pork industry, our company tested our farm and barn disinfectant brands, Intervention®, Prevail™, and Intervención™ against this pathogen. Our disinfectant technology, Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide® (AHP®) proved to be effective against this devastating pathogen.

As stated by Dr. José A. Ramirez, PhD, Executive Vice President & Lead Science Advisor of our company, “Our AHP technology has been proven to be highly virucidal against both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses. We were confident both Intervention, Prevail, and Intervención would be effective against ASF, but having direct confirmation gives us and our customer’s reassurance.”

Our company is committed to improving the biosecurity and infection prevention needs of a number of industries with a powerful yet safe disinfectant technology – Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide. To learn more about how our technology was tested against this pathogen, click here.

Virox^® Technologies Inc. is excited to announce that it has launched surface disinfectant cleaners for the use in Cannabis facilities in Canada under the brand name SHYIELD™. SHYIELD™ disinfectants are registered by Health Canada and specifically designed for use in Cannabis facilities. The development of this product is a result of our company’s expertise and understanding of the biosecurity requirements in highly controlled environments. We take pride in the development of a product specifically for the Cannabis industry that is environmentally friendly, safer for the user, and powerful enough to protect Cannabis facilities from risky pathogens. SHYIELD™ truly delivers “sustainable facility disinfection for your yield protection”.

SHYIELD™ is distributed through GrowHaus Supply Co., a Canadian distributor who stocks and delivers high quality personal protection and Cannabis facilities supplies at industry leading prices: https://growhaussupply.ca/

To learn more about SHYIELD™ disinfectants, please visit https://shyield.ca

Virox Animal Health gives back to the Animal Shelter community! In August of 2017, our Animal Health team launched their ‘Rescue My Shelter’ contest where individuals involved in the Animal Shelter community had the chance to nominate a shelter in need of disinfectant products to protect their facilities from outbreaks. The program ran to August 31, 2018, and within this time period the contest had 2200 nominations and 26 shelters were chosen as winners. This year the Animal Health team re-launched the shelter program, and are selecting two Animal shelters per month to win a Rescue™ My Shelter Starter Kit. Learn more about this initiative here or nominate a shelter you know that is in need: https://pr.easypromosapp.com/p/813390

Last month, the Virox Animal Health team exhibited at the Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX), put on by the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC). This year the line up of Rescue® disinfectants featured a “Candy Bar Pathogen Lab” which proved very popular with attendees. Rescue’s presence at the show generated so much buzz that it made the nomination list for “Best Booth in 2019″!