Bee Vaccine (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

What will the anti vax crowd say?
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The world’s first vaccine for honeybees has been approved for use by the US government, raising hopes of a new weapon against diseases that routinely ravage colonies that are relied upon for food pollination.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted a conditional license for a vaccine created by Dalan Animal Health, a US biotech company, to help protect honeybees from American foulbrood disease.

“Our vaccine is a breakthrough in protecting honeybees,” said Annette Kleiser, chief executive of Dalan Animal Health. “We are ready to change how we care for insects, impacting food production on a global scale.”

The vaccine, which will initially be available to commercial beekeepers, aims to curb foulbrood, a serious disease caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae that can weaken and kill hives.

There is currently no cure for the disease, which in parts of the US has been found in a quarter of hives, requiring beekeepers to destroy and burn any infected colonies and administer antibiotics to prevent further spread……..

US government approves use of world’s first vaccine for honeybees

Hopes of a new weapon against diseases that routinely ravage colonies that are relied upon for food pollination

www.theguardian.com

 

[Eeyore]

We're going to have autistic bees?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Refuse to eat food pollinated by vaccinated bees?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Now they puttin 5G in honey!!!!?!

 

[gboudx]

Class action lawsuit coming up from antivaxxers against the USDA. It’s their right to not be vaxxed, but if they get stung by a vaxxed bee then their rights were violated.

 

[0rion]

 

[Sailorsaint]

I just want to know who the hell is going to be giving the shots to all those bees?!

 

[Marcotte]

I just want to know who the hell is going to be giving the shots to all those bees?!

They'll create a panel that will look into the methods available, dispute the method they don't like for a year to a year and a half, then come to the conclusion, after millions of tax dollars are spent, that it cannot be achieved.

 

[Madmarsha]

Why can't they just institute mandatory quarantine? Or make them wear teeny tiny masks?

 

[livefromDC]

I just want to know who the hell is going to be giving the shots to all those bees?!

Sign me the **** up! I have a few scores to settle. This time, I'm doing the stinging.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Why can't they just institute mandatory quarantine? Or make them wear teeny tiny masks?

you ever try to tell a bee what to do? always going on about their rights and beedoms, and besides, only flies wear masks and they're already used to eating bullshirt

 

[Madmarsha]

you ever try to tell a bee what to do?

I have. Once.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Why can't they just institute mandatory quarantine? Or make them wear teeny tiny masks?

hive immunity

 

[Madmarsha]

hive immunity

 

[Optimus Prime]

First bees, now monkeys
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SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — In a small lab nestled in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal’s belly.

The next morning, biologist Andréia Martins brings them to the precise spot where they were caught. She opens the wire cages and the monkeys dart out, hopping to a tree or the ground, ascending the canopy and regrouping as a family. They chatter noisily as they vanish into the rainforest.

This brief, strange encounter with humanity has been for the sake of their own health – and the survival of their kind. These endangered wild monkeys, called golden lion tamarins, have now been vaccinated against yellow fever, part of a pathbreaking campaign to save a threatened species……..

Race to vaccinate rare wild monkeys gives hope for survival

SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — In a small lab nestled in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal’s belly.

apnews.com