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COVID-19 vaccines give 'huge boost' to researchers trying to save Tasmanian devils from facial tumour disease

Andy Flies from the Menzies Institute for Medical Research said leading COVID vaccines had sped up their process. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)

Researchers trying to protect Tasmanian devils from a deadly disease that is wreaking havoc on the animals in the wild have received a "huge boost" from an unlikely source — the COVID-19 vaccine.

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