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BRDC Success Stories:
Live Vaccine for Cattle Shipping Fever
Shipping Fever costs the North American cattle industry approximately $1 billion per year. The disease, a bacterial respiratory illness, is generally caused by stress experienced when feeder calves are shipped to feed lots.
BRDC-sponsored scientists at the ARS National Animal Disease Center have developed a live vaccine that has been shown to be significantly more effective than prior vaccines. This new vaccine was developed using novel genetic engineering methods on the three most common causative agents.
This technology has been licensed to BRDC shareholder Schering Plough Animal Health Corporation and is currently under accelerated development for product introduction early in 2000.
If you would like more information about this Live Vaccine for Cattle Shipping Fever, contact:
J. Grant Brewen, Ph. D.
BRDC
1815 N. University Street
Peoria, IL 61604
309-688-1188 phone
309-688-1292 fax
