Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:58:00 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60222464

'"She's our wonder baby!" says elephant keeper Katie Morrison, smiling broadly.

Katie points to five-year-old Indali, an elephant survivor of an often deadly
virus, which has killed seven calves at Chester Zoo.

Now, the zoo, with scientists at the University of Surrey, is embarking on a
world first - a trial, in elephants, of a potentially life-saving vaccine.'

Via Muse, who wrote "So good to see a vaccine has been found to help the
elephants. I hope we have the resources to get it out to as many elephants as
possible."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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