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Several million Danish minks have died since the mutated virus was discovered. Stock Photography.
A corona vaccine being developed in Denmark has been shown in animal experiments to be effective against the mutated strain of the virus that was discovered in mink in the country, says one of the researchers behind the vaccine.
Several million Danish minks have already died since the virus mutation was discovered, after humans were infected. There are also fears that the new variety could escape the vaccines that are being developed against the coronavirus.
The first studies of the new strain of the virus, called group 5, showed that the virus does not act as susceptible to antibodies, which can affect the effectiveness of a possible vaccine to fight it.
But now the vaccine being developed at the Statens serum institute in Denmark has been shown to work in early tests. Antibodies from rabbits treated with the virus were able to successfully fight the new virus, according to Anders Fomsgaard, a researcher at SSI.
– We couldn’t resist testing the rabbits’ antibodies against group 5, and it works, Fomsgaard tells Danish radio on Thursday.
The vaccine was just approved for early testing in humans, but it is not clear if it is as effective against group 5 in humans.
The EU infection control authority ECDC wrote in a risk analysis on Thursday that there is currently “very high uncertainty” about the magnitude of the threat posed by group 5.
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