Farmabase, a Brazilian animal health company specializing in veterinary products for swine and poultry, has changed its internal structure, with one of its partners,
Paulo Machado
, having acquired single ownership of the business. The company is also launching a new antimicrobial for swine, ...
Pfizer Animal Health has received approval to market Improvac in Japan, the company has announced. The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery (JMAFF) considers the product, a “boar taint” vaccine offered as an alternative to the physical castration of pigs, safe and effective for use ...
The Hendra virus, which is known to infect horses and people, often with fatal outcomes, is also likely to use the pig as an intermediate host, according to a study by researchers from the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Discovered in Australia in 1994, the Hendra virus is carried by bats known as ...
The efficacy and economic costs of different strategies to fight a possible epidemic of foot and mouth disease in the Netherlands have been analyzed in a report by the Wageningen University and Research Centre. According to the document, in areas with a high farm density emergency vaccination of ...
Boehringer Ingelheim’s Metacam (meloxicam) 5 mg/ml injectable solution has gained an EU-wide marketing authorization for use as an analgesic to relieve post-operative pain associated with the castration of piglets. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is now the first product licensed for this ...
