The U.S. Department of Agriculture is "18 months or so" away from identifying a vaccine for the current strain of bird flu and is developing a process to distribute it, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday.
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US is ’18 months or so’ away from finding bird flu vaccine, says agriculture secretary
USDA plans to discuss poultry vaccinations with trading partners amid trade restriction concerns
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American foulbrood vaccine gets Canadian green light
Producers will be able to get the vaccine in spring 2024
Canadian beekeepers are about to have the first vaccine for their stock. “It’s very exciting,” said Canadian Honey Council hive health specialist Osee Podolsky. The new vaccine targets American foulbrood, a spore-producing bacterial disease that gets its name from the unpleasant smell in infected hives. The disease is serious enough that standard industry practice for most symptomatic colonies is
Updated Covid vaccines roll out
The first updated COVID-19 and flu shots are making their way through the province, Manitoba Health announced Oct. 6. The first shipments are bound for high-priority locations such as personal care homes and hospitals, the department said. The vaccines are expected to trickle out to the general public in coming weeks, although the province warned
Australia buys vaccines for lumpy skin disease to safeguard cattle exports
Recent scares halted some live export trade
Canberra | Reuters — The Australian government said on Wednesday it had bought a supply of vaccines for lumpy skin disease (LSD), a highly infectious condition affecting cattle, as part of efforts to control the disease and maintain live animal exports. The government says Australia is free of LSD but infection scares in recent months
Vietnam approves commercial use of first African swine fever vaccines
U.S. Agriculture Secretary says farmers may purchase as precaution despite no domestic cases
Hanoi | Reuters – Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever, the government said on Monday, making them the world’s first commercial vaccines against the deadly disease. The vaccines include NAVET-ASFVAC, co-developed by Navetco Central Veterinary Medicine and scientists from the United States, and AVAC ASF LIVE
New vaccine tools launched for cattle
Clear guidelines and infographics aim to streamline vaccination management
Cattle farmers have a new set of tools to help manage vaccination programs for their herds, courtesy of the Beef Cattle Research Council. “Vaccine schedules can be so overwhelming, and knowing when to use modified live or killed vaccines and the schedule for boosting them can be so overwhelming,” said BCRC member and Manitoba cattle
Comment: Beware misinformation on livestock mRNA vaccines
Vaccines using mRNA can protect farm animals — and there are safeguards to keep them out of food
Effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, but fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions have recently spilled into worries about whether their use in agricultural animals could expose people to components of the vaccine within meat or milk. In fact, a number
Bird flu alarm drives world towards once-shunned vaccines
It is a balance between preventing trade upset and limiting economic losses
Reuters – French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave of deadly outbreaks nears his farm once again, he says it’s time to accept a solution once considered taboo: vaccination. “The goal is that our animals don’t fall ill
Maple Leaf to require Covid vaccine for entry by March
The mandate extends to barns Maple Leaf owns and operates
Maple Leaf will require all employees, contractors and suppliers to prove they are vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter its facilities after March 31, 2022. “We continue to make the safety of our team members our priority,” said Kristie Syndikus, vice president of procurement, in a letter sent to suppliers and contractors Dec. 13. In the
Editor’s Take: On vaccine efficacy
One of the key metrics that crop protection products are evaluated on is one known as ‘efficacy.’ You’re quite right if you think that’s a $5 word for ‘effectiveness.’ Whether or not a crop protection product does what it says it will do is a critical part of its evaluation by federal regulators. If it
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