Iowa firm awarded first license for PEDv vaccine
Story Date: 6/17/2014

 

Source: AGRI-PULSE, 6/16/14

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued Harrisvaccines Inc. of Ames, Iowa, a conditional license for a vaccine that may help control the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus. This is the first licensed vaccine for PEDv, which has killed more than 8 million hogs in the U.S. since it was found in U.S. herds in the spring of 2013.

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