Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
A successful jab would be a boon to fish farmers
ERIK SLINDE has spent 40 years developing vaccines. Not for humans; for salmon. “Back in the 1980s, it was looked upon as a joke,” says Dr Slinde, the former director of aquacultural research at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway.
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