Throughout history, research involving animals has been essential to our survival during epidemics and pandemics caused by infectious diseases. We are now facing a new pandemic, COVID-19, a disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Animal studies are essential for advancing medicine and science. This includes the current global quest for treatments and a vaccine to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are recent news stories that feature the role of animals in this important work.

Overcoming this pandemic will require an unparalleled collective effort from the global scientific and medical communities. Animal research that is building on the work previously funded by the MRC is already playing a vital role in these efforts and helping UK scientists lead the way in developing vaccines and treatments against COVID-19.

Animals are also key for evaluating the protective efficacy and safety of any new treatments, including COVID-19. Mice, specially bred for studying COVID-19 .

During COVID-19 vaccine tests, researchers may inject animals with a vaccine and then purposely infect the animals with the virus to challenge the vaccine. In early trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that monkeys have shown signs of sickness when infected and that ferrets, cats, and hamsters have spread the infection to other animals in laboratories. But after nearly 60 years of research, experts are not certain that drugs and vaccines tested on animals can be effectively translatable to humans.

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As coronavirus cases continue to climb, researchers are beginning to realize that while testing COVID-19 vaccines on animals is required.

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Journal of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery