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2 days ago

Vaccinating bats could be good for people. But how do you vaccinate a bat?

Chinese researchers developed a method to vaccinate bats against deadly pathogens using vaccine-carrying mosquitoes, offering an alternative to culling that protects both humans and bat populations.
fromNature
5 days ago

Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers in China fed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes blood that contained either a vaccine against Nipah virus or the rabies virus. The viruses, contained in the vaccines, replicated inside the insects and reached their salivary glands, allowing them to pass on the vaccine when feeding on bats or when the bats ate the insects.
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