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'Vaccinating' frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic – but it does provide another option for conservation

  • Written by Andrea Adams, Researcher in Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara
'Vaccinating' frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic – but it does provide another option for conservationCalifornia red-legged frogs are threatened with extinction.KQED QUEST/Flickr, CC BY-NC

When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised. Some were intrigued it hadn’t happened sooner; after all, it is our job to observe, describe and study pandemic dynamics in animals.

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