{"id":853752,"date":"2026-06-08T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/853752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:48:38","slug":"vaccines-for-bees-shrimp-could-mark-a-paradigm-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/853752\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines for Bees, Shrimp Could Mark a &#8216;Paradigm Shift&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Honeybees and shrimp are the latest species undergoing vaccinations, with what could be big benefits for agriculture and aquaculture. A Georgia-based company, Dalan Animal Health, has begun rolling out what the USDA conditionally cleared three years ago as the first honeybee vaccine in the US\u2014and it&#8217;s now reporting early lab success with a shrimp version unveiled at April&#8217;s World Vaccine Congress. Both aim to shield high-value farmed species from devastating diseases while cutting reliance on antibiotics, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/honeybees-and-shrimp-getting-vaccinated\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Science News<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The science breaks from the traditional vaccination playbook. Invertebrates lack the adaptive immune system that human vaccines tap to produce antibodies, so &#8220;to come up with a vaccine for an animal that is not producing these antibodies is literally a paradigm shift,&#8221; zoological medicine specialist J\u00f6rg Mayer tells the AAHA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaha.org\/trends-magazine\/publications\/paradigm-shift-what-success-of-a-new-honeybee-vaccine-means-for-veterinarians\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trends<\/a>. What invertebrates do have is an innate immunity that research suggests can form a kind of &#8220;memory&#8221; via heritable epigenetic changes.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Dalan&#8217;s bee vaccine, made from killed Paenibacillus larvae bacteria, is fed to queens; their offspring emerge more resistant to American foulbrood and a mite-linked virus. For shrimp, brood stock are fed an inactivated bacterial mix; their young are effectively born pre-armed and in lab tests survived some lethal infections at a 50% higher rate, per Science News. Outside experts want peer-reviewed data and real-world trial results, and Dalan plans field tests in Indonesia that could determine whether invertebrate vaccines move from curiosity to a new agribusiness tool.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Honeybees and shrimp are the latest species undergoing vaccinations, with what could be big benefits for agriculture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":853753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[3425,210,245461,19276,67,132,68,2040,2857],"class_list":["post-853752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-animals","tag-health","tag-honeybees","tag-shrimp","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116716929473128212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}