Vaccines target swine diseases

Lynn Grooms
Jul 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023

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An mRNA platform has been and is being used to develop vaccines for swine diseases, including foreign-animal-disease threats such as African swine fever, classical swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease.

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The mRNA vaccines use a molecule called mRNA rather than part of an actual weakened or dead bacteria or virus, which traditional vaccines contain.

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Lynn Grooms

Years before messenger ribonucleic acid – mRNA – vaccines were developed to fight COVID-19, rapidly adaptable RNA-based vaccine technologies were being used to fight swine diseases. Harrisvaccines, an animal-health company, was instrumental in producing the first conditionally licensed vaccine to help control Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus – a virus that killed more than 8 million piglets after suddenly emerging in 2013 in the United States.

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Lynn Grooms writes about the diversity of agriculture, including the industry’s newest ideas, research and technologies as a staff reporter for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.