WION Climate Tracker: Horseshoe crab blood key to making covid-19 vaccine | International News

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Horseshoe crabs are vital for the safety of human vaccines because their blood contains a substance that detects a contaminant called endotoxin which is a type of bacterial toxin.

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All Comments (21)
  • Humans' greed is endless, which leads to the extinction of all creatures and even including men.
  • @SilverSin
    if you know anything about the process of getting this solution atleast 50% of horseshoe crabs die during this process. I'm not Peta but we should probably find a safer process for them.
  • @perezsan1
    Nancy Pelosi was there when the first crab evolved.
  • @HylanderSB
    Horseshoe crabs’ blood is based on Copper. That’s why it’s blue. Just like how Iron makes human blood red.
  • The crabs have been around longer than the human race and will be here longer than humans too.
  • @KJensenStudio
    The crab harvesting isn't necessary anymore, as there is a synthetic replacement that is safe for the uses and safe for the crabs. The crabs are experiencing diminishing levels because not surprisingly, they are being over fished; tapped too often for the crabs to recover from previous blood tapping. 400 million years, imagine wiping them out for this, especially when there is a viable alternative.
  • @dollmck8360
    Could explain the blood clots people are suffering
  • There are horseshoe crabs on Cape cod I remember seeing them on a beach and wellfleet harbor
  • @TheLadyaec
    How reliant we are on the nature that we are destroying.
  • @dimitri1946
    These primitive sea creatures will soon go extinct if their indiscriminate harvest continues. The "knowledge of good and evil" was understood to mean that mankind would know the difference between what's useful and what's detrimental in its interaction with nature. Apparently this lesson has yet so sink in.
  • @hendle2055
    Wish I was there to remove the barnacles from the crab’s shell
  • @adriaeverett
    We should be protecting the rights of these creatures. Crabs also feel pain so we should be respecting them. ❤
  • So it came from bat's so they say and crabs are the cure 😋 what a load of bollox
  • @NoName-uh2yn
    A stone for a stone A needle for a needle So it shud be Human for a human But innocent voiceless for humans
  • That is so Much a Misdirections that it makes me feel like we need another Scientific Adviser for the World.