Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has unequivocally illustrated that this list is woefully insufficient, and that even geographically isolated zoonotic diseases can be rapidly disseminated across the planet with medically devastating, socially destabilizing, and economically destructive consequences. With over 100 novel human virus pathogen species having been discovered just since 1980, 80% of which are associated with non-human origins, the threats to both Human and animal health now needs to be taken more seriously.

For decades governments and the public have regarded military spending as an acceptable expense for the “public good”, rarely questioning the benefit of procuring expensive defense resources even though they may never be used, as evidenced by nuclear weapons stockpiles. Consider this against the backdrop of past public outcries against the “wastefulness” of government spending on vaccination programs as public health initiatives. Whereas to date vaccination has been positioned purely as a means of controlling zoonotic viral outbreaks to reduce medical costs and death, Vacunax believes its technology can serve as prophylactic “health defense weapons”.