San Diego Zoo Gives Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine to Its Apes

Several apes at the San Diego Zoo have been given an experimental COVID-19 vaccine in order to curb an outbreak that occurred among the zoo's primate population.Nadine Lamberski, chief conservation and wildlife health officer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, told National Geographic that four orangutans and five bonobos received two doses of an experimental drug for COVID-19 in February. The vaccine is different than the ones currently being administered to humans and was developed by a v...