Half a Million Sharks Could Be Killed to Make a Global COVID Vaccine

beSpacific 2020-09-30

Summary:

Vox – “Conservationists are worried that the mass production of a COVID-19 vaccine could devastate shark populations around the world, as a number of pharmaceutical companies are found to be using oil from the animals’ livers in the development of their vaccines. Squalene, a natural organic compound sourced primarily from shark liver oil, is most […]

Link:

https://www.bespacific.com/half-a-million-sharks-could-be-killed-to-make-a-global-covid-vaccine/

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Tags:

environmental

Authors:

Sabrina I. Pacifici

Date tagged:

09/30/2020, 20:30

Date published:

09/30/2020, 19:07