We Made Wild Animals Sick. Should We Vaccinate Them Too?
The Atlantic,
When other conservation methods fail, scientists sometimes turn to immunization.
When other conservation methods fail, scientists sometimes turn to immunization.
Every year, at the end of August, Travis Livieri drives into the sandy grasslands of South Dakota’s Conata Basin, where, armed…
A vaccine to fight Lyme disease, decades in the making, has received a temporary green light from the U.S.
Den 27. august 2017 stiger en 31-årig mand ombord på en minibus og begiver sig ud på en skramlende rejse gennem det centrale…
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A prairie dog in Gunnison, Colo., eats a bait laden with plague vaccine. (U.S. Geological Survey) Public health officials in…
A prairie dog in Gunnison, Colo., eats a bait laden with plague vaccine. (U.S. Geological Survey) Public health officials in…
Prairie dogs with a taste for peanut butter, scientists reported recently, can now be vaccinated against plague — the Black…
Close A Gunnison prairie dog eats a bait laden with plague vaccine developed in Madison.
Photo Prairie dogs with a taste for peanut butter, scientists reported recently, can now be vaccinated against plague — the…
Prairie dogs in the wild are less likely to succumb to plague after they ingest peanut-butter-flavored bait that contains a…