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Meet the horseshoe crabs, 'living fossils' whose blood is vital for vaccine safety / 32DC2TZ
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Every May and June, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs — a species with 10 eyes predating dinosaurs and related to scorpions and spiders — come ashore in the Delaware Bay, on the East Coast of the United States, to spawn at high tide. Horseshoe crabs are vital for the safety of human vaccines because their blood contains cells that the biomedical industry uses to test vaccines — including the Covid-19 vaccine — and ensure that they aren't contaminated by bacteria. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES