Vaccine-laden M&M’s to be distributed via drone for endangered ferrets

A plague is threatening the already endangered black-footed ferret, leaving the US Fish and Wildlife Service with only one option. Load up a “glorified gumball machine” on a drone to fire out vaccine-infused peanut butter M&Ms to help the fuzzy critters.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is on a mission. By using drones to distribute candy covered in vaccines in the black-footed ferrets’ habitat, the federal agency hopes to stop the spread of a disease that has ravaged prairie dog populations and poses risks to other species.

To combat the spread of the sylvatic plague at the UL Bend Wildlife Refuge in central Montana, the USFWS plans to trick the ferrets and prairie dogs into getting vaccinated, with the help of a drone that can shoot out M&M candies in three different directions at once.


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I see things like this and post them to see if I am the only one who sees the potential implications this technology could have if applied in other aspects of the world.

Say, vaccines or other forms of medicine/poison in foods we readily buy from the store? It could already be in our M&Ms!

Just curious if I'm the only one drawing these lines.