January 4, 2008

Fort Dodge launches three new vaccines for poultry market

Fort Dodge Animal Health, a division of Wyeth, announced it has acquired three new vaccines for poultry health.

The vaccines are F Vax-MG in the US, Avimune IB98 in the US and Cholervac-PM-1 in the US and Canada, from Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp. and Intervet Inc.

F Vax-MG is a live vaccine used to prevent MG infection in commercial pullets.

Avimune IB98 is a live infectious bronchitis, Georgia type vaccine, administered to chickens at one-day old to protect them against infectious bronchitis (Georgia type).

Cholervac-PM-1 is a live vaccine to prevent fowl cholera in breeder replacement chickens between 10 and 12 weeks of age.

The products are already circulating on the market.