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China Has Successfully
Developed the Swine Pseudo-rabies Vaccine
The first strain of animal virus gene engineering vaccine has successfully
come out from the Animal Biotechnology Center, Sichuan Agricultural
University. The swine pseudo-rabies (gene lacking) live vaccine (SA215
strain) developed by Professor Guo Wanzhu from the Sichuan Agricultural
University has recently received certificate of state new veterinary
medicine. It has created the practice of the first animal virus gene
engineering vaccine in China.
Pseudo-rabies is one of the key control swine diseases. The European
Community requires the import swine be injected with gene lacking
vaccine. At present time, China has to rely on import vaccines to
prevent this disease. The vaccine developed by Prof. Guo Wanzhu is
superior to import vaccines. After pilot experiment in several pig
farms in Sichuan Province, it has created several hundreds millions
of benefits for animal production in the areas.
Background data:
Pseudo-rabies is an acute infectious disease of pigs, cattle, sheep
and other livestock as well as poultry and wildlife caused by pseudo-rabies
virus. Pigs are the main host and infection source of this disease.
At present, swine pseudo-rabies has infected thousands of pigs each
year, causing an annual economic loss of 2 billion yuan RMB.
Source: cav.net.cn
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