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COVID in humans has given the cattle industry a possible key to fighting lumpy skin disease (LSD) and other diseases, according to one of Australia’s leading animal wellbeing specialists.
New ways of manipulating genetic material offers cheaper vaccines made more quickly, said Dr Michael Laurence (right).
However, like COVID, cattle might need booster shots and scientists might have to hose-down possible consumer resistance to meat from vaccinated animals.
The MLA program manager animal wellbeing was addressing a biosecurity breakfast hosted by MLA in Brisbane on…
