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The Coronavirus Kills Mink, So They Too May Get a Vaccine

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Mary Wilson

Well-known member
Jan. 22, 2021, 9:46 a.m. ET
By James Gorman

At least two American companies, as well as Russian researchers, are working on coronavirus vaccines for mink. The animals have grown sick and died in large numbers from the virus, which they have also passed back to people in mutated form.

Zoetis, a large veterinary pharmaceutical company in New Jersey with more than $6 billion in annual revenue in 2019, and Medgene Labs, a small company with about 35 employees that is based in South Dakota, are both testing vaccines in mink. They are seeking licensing of their products from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Both companies said their vaccine technologies are generally similar to the one used by Novovax for a human vaccine,which is in late-stage trials. That system involves making insect cells produce the spike protein on the coronavirus, which is then attached to a harmless virus that enters into the body’s cells and trains the immune system to be ready for the real thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/science/covid-mink-vaccine.html?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur
 
Russia trials COVID-19 vaccine for domestic animals, including mink

DECEMBER 14, 2020 6:36 AM UPDATED A MONTH AGO
By Maria Vasilyeva

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is close to completing clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine for domestic animals and mink and expects to begin the regulatory approval process in February, according to Russia’s agricultural safety watchdog.

The Federal Centre for Animal Health began developing the vaccine in spring after the authorities established the virus could be passed from humans onto some domestic animals.

... The Russian animal vaccine is aimed at rabbits, mink, cats and some other animals. Clinical trials will end in January and the approval process is likely to begin at the end of February, Yulia Melano, an aide to the head of the agricultural safety watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/hea...domestic-animals-including-mink-idUSKBN28O1HU
 
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