#Animal Health Trust

Strangles vaccine within reach for horses

February 12, 2018

Scientists from the Animal Health Trust (AHT), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and Intervacc AB, have developed a new protein-based vaccine to protect horses from strangles. Strangles, caused by Streptococcus equi bacteria, leads to large pus-filled abscesses in horses’ throat and neck. The research was recently published in Vaccine. “ … Our Strangvac vaccine protected over 80 percent of …
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