LIVE ATTENUATED CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VACCINE (IVRI-CSF-BS)
Feb. 4, 2020
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) released the Live attenuated Classical Swine Fever Vaccine (IVRI-CSF-BS) Technology developed by ICAR -Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar.
About:
Classical Swine Fever (CSF) is one of the most important diseases of pigs causing high mortality with annual loss of approx. Rs.4.299 billion.
A lapinized CSF vaccine (Weybridge strain, UK) is being used in India since 1964 for controlling the disease. The vaccine is produced by sacrificing large numbers of rabbits for each batch.
In order to do away sacrificing of rabbits and increase the productivity, IVRI has developed a new CSF Cell Culture Vaccine by attenuating an indigenous virulent CSF virus in cell culture.
The vaccine is safe, potent, does not revert to virulence and provide protective immunity from day 14 of the vaccination till 24 months studied so far. The vaccine has been tested on around 500 pigs at multiple locations.
The new vaccine will be part of the Government’s One Health Initiative.
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