Australia's national science agency has begun researching how to treat the deadly coronavirus - after Australian scientists were the first outside of China to grow the virus in a lab.
Australia's national science agency has begun researching how to treat the deadly coronavirus - after Australian scientists were the first outside of China to grow the virus in a lab. Dr Rob Grenfell, director of Health and Biosecurity told Sky News the vaccines will be tested on ferrets before humans, at the agency's Animal Health Lab in Geelong.
"Our first step is to replicate that virus and get it to quantities that we can actually use across our various biological media," he said. "We will then be moving into the vaccine testing, which should hopefully begin around the start of March." The agency said once the CSIRO determined its key characteristics, potential coronavirus vaccines could be tested on humans in as little as 16 weeks.
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