On May 1, the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine’s (CVM) Secure Food System (SFS) team received $1 million from USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) for the team’s proposed work involving tactical sciences for agricultural biosecurity.
More than 65 percent of U.S. households own a pet. Recent research has revealed that, of those pets, mainly ferrets and cats are particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Drs. Yuying Liang and Hinh Ly strive to find a vaccine for COVID-19 using animal models. Find out more about their latest projects to combat this worldwide pandemic.
As shelter-in-place mandates lessen, societies may be able to reopen parts of their economies while still curbing overall disease spread by limiting interactions related to increased disease.
