Fortunately, modern science made it possible for scientists and researchers to produce a vaccine in record time, but the vaccine was of little value unless it could be distributed and administered worldwide. This required scientific conferences where specialists shared field trial results, governments ...
“Spanish flu” more than one century ago could not benefit from a specific vaccine against the influenza virus. The virus of influenza was still unknown, it was only discovered in 1933 and its isolation put the basis for the production of a live influenza vaccine in 1936 [74,75] and an...
Over the ensuing four months, 17 adult goats and 2 kids (all females) died prior to the herd being vaccinated by a single dose of an inactivated Louping-ill vaccine (Intervet, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom) on 25 January, 2012. During the following two months, no further mortalities ...