Ferrets will be used in U.S-funded research by U.K scientists on the novel coronavirus, documents reveal. According the U.S. government’s contract website, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a contract to Public Health England (PHE), a government agency in the U.K., to investigate COVID-19 on March 2, 2020. The research piggybacks on an already […]
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Drones to unleash vaccine-laced pellets to save endangered ferrets
The US government is set to unleash drones that fire vaccine-laced pellets in a bid to save the endangered black-footed ferret, a species that is facing a plague epidemic across America’s great plains. The US Fish and Wildlife (FWS) has developed a plan to bombard ferret habitat in Montana with the vaccine, which will be […]