Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Apr 2020
CSIRO scientists in Australia start testing potential coronavirus vaccine on ferrets
2 April 2020 - Ferrets have been injected with two trial vaccines for coronavirus at CSIRO’s Geelong animal testing laboratory to test whether they are safe and effective.
Scientists at the lab are hoping to report the results of the trials by the end of June so the vaccines can be rushed into human clinical trials.
One of the vaccines, developed by Oxford University, uses a different type of virus to introduce proteins from the SARS-COV-2 virus which causes coronavirus into the human body to prompt an immune response.
