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  • The USDA approved the first vaccine for honeybees.

    The USDA approved the first vaccine for honeybees.

    The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued conditional licenses for honeybee vaccines to help combat American Foulbrood Disease. The honeybee vaccine doesn’t have a injection in it. Instead, it’s mixed into “queen feed,” which the worker bees consume, according to Dalan Animal Health. The queen bee excretes vaccine fragments in her ovary after consuming…