Vaccines using mRNA can protect farm animals against diseases traditional ones may not – and there are safeguards to ensure they won’t end up in your food

Photo caption: Vaccines help protect farm animals from various diseases. Photo credit:  dusanpetkovic / iStock via Getty Images Plus. Article by David Verhoeven. The Conversation – May 17, 2023.

While effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions about mRNA vaccines have recently spilled over into worries about whether their use in agricultural animals could expose people to components of the vaccine within animal products such as meat or milk. […]

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