People get vaccinated. Cats and dogs get vaccinated. Cows, fish and even koalas get vaccinated. In a shift in how researchers think about immune protection, invertebrates are now getting vaccinated, too.<\/p>\n
The first vaccine for honeybees was given conditional approval by the U.S. Department of Agriculture three years ago and has started rolling out across farms in the United States and Canada. Last month at the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, D.C., the company behind that vaccine announced early results from tests of a potential vaccine for shrimp.<\/p>\n