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Virus more difficult to control in Manitoba
H1N1 | Commercial vaccines won?t help Manitoba hog producers
Posted Feb. 23rd, 2012 by Ed White
Manitoba pigs are traditionalists when it comes to H1N1, the classic swine influenza virus.
Hogs in the province have an old strain, which makes it harder to control with vaccines.
?Commercial vaccines don?t carry this classic H1 strain anymore,? said Blaine Tully, a veterinarian with Swine Health Professionals in Steinbach.
?Finding a flu vaccine that?s going to protect against the strains we have in Manitoba becomes challenging.?
He told the recent Manitoba Swine Seminar that current vaccines are based on the main forms of swine influenzas in the Midwest United States, which have mutated away from the original forms...
Virus more difficult to control in Manitoba
H1N1 | Commercial vaccines won?t help Manitoba hog producers
Posted Feb. 23rd, 2012 by Ed White
Manitoba pigs are traditionalists when it comes to H1N1, the classic swine influenza virus.
Hogs in the province have an old strain, which makes it harder to control with vaccines.
?Commercial vaccines don?t carry this classic H1 strain anymore,? said Blaine Tully, a veterinarian with Swine Health Professionals in Steinbach.
?Finding a flu vaccine that?s going to protect against the strains we have in Manitoba becomes challenging.?
He told the recent Manitoba Swine Seminar that current vaccines are based on the main forms of swine influenzas in the Midwest United States, which have mutated away from the original forms...