The vaccines of the future are taking shape today at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) – an innovation hub that includes more than 30 research laboratories, over 40 animal rooms, a 65-hectar research station for large animal studies, and a vaccine manufacturing facility capable of containing high-risk pathogens like COVID-19 or influenza.
From the Prairies to Passchendaele, from the Land of Living Skies to the skies over London in the Battle of Britain, the McNab brothers from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) answered their country’s call in both world wars.
A tribute to peace, in the form of poppies grown from Flanders Fields-sourced seeds, will bloom in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources (AgBio) Atrium for Remembrance Day.
While avian flu and cattle flu aren’t quite the same as the flu we’re used to as humans, they can have deadly consequences for wild and farmed birds and long-term effects on our cows that we’re only just beginning to explore.