Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
Institute for Animal Health at the BA Festival: Rinderpest on the ropes

For Release: 02 Sep 2003

Organisation:Institute for Animal Health

New vaccines could aid efforts to rid the world of cattle plague, according to research presented today (Tuesday 09 September 2003) at the BA festival of Science. Professor Tom Barrett and colleagues at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) have produced several candidate vaccines, using the latest DNA technology, which could assist in the final stages of the global rinderpest eradication programme (GREP). Rinderpest (cattle plague) was once a serious threat to livestock throughout the world, including Britain. GREP is timetabled for completion by 2010. This would make rinderpest only the second ever infectious disease to be completely eradicated. The first was smallpox.

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