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Peninsula Residents Heed the Call for Flu Vaccines

2014-01-14 11:23:41| IT Services - Topix.net

By Bay City News With flu season in full swing and more than a dozen flu-related deaths reported in the Bay Area as of today, many residents are getting vaccinated, and flu shot providers are ordering extra doses to keep up with demand.

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Why Vaccines Fail

2013-12-02 20:01:00| National Hog Farmer

By Kent Schwartz, DVM, Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Midwestern grow-finish swine are commonly vaccinated for endemic diseases such as porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), Mycoplasma hyopneumonia (M. hyo) and Lawsonia intracellularis (ileitis). Vaccinations are not expected to eliminate infections from the herd, but are expected to decrease the severity of clinical disease and associated performance losses. Producers or veterinarians occasionally get the sense that a vaccine is not working for a particular disease. Does that mean it is a vaccine failure? Or is it a vaccination failure? read more

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Pulse Combustion Systems Gains Patent for Pulse-Drying of Viral Vaccines

2013-11-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Pulse Combustion Systems (PCS) today announced that it has obtained a patent concerning the pulse-drying of viral vaccines. The patent was issued on August 27, 2013 under Patent No. 8,517,723.<br /> <br /> The patent was initiated after PCS performed some drying trials on a live, beneficial virus that had been developed by a company in that line of business to combat certain plant diseases. The company was shipping the live viruses in liquid form and was incurring large shipping costs. The ...This story is related to the following:Laboratory Dryers

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Govt Gets 'Thank You' for Timely Response Regarding Animal Vaccines

2013-10-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - Last week, poultry groups sent a letter to congressional officials expressing their concern about the possibility of stalled vaccine delivery as a result of the government shutdown.

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