Clean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It's one of the stranger, lesser-known aspects of U.S. health care -- the striking, milky-blue blood of horseshoe crabs is a critical component of tests to ensure injectable medications such as coronavirus vaccines aren't contaminated.

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