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APHA Report: PRRS, Bowel Oedema, Bacterial Joint Infections

2015-04-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has reported incidents including respiratory disease involving porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), sudden deaths from bowel oedema and bacterial joint infections with underlying PRRS in its Pig Disease Surveillance Monthly Report for December 2014.

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MSD Animal Health Launches Vaccine in Europe to Protect Piglets from Two Prevalent Respiratory Infections

2015-04-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

EUROPE - MSD Animal Health (known as Merck Animal Health in the United States and Canada) has introduced PORCILIS® PCV M Hyo, the first ready-to-use single-injection combination vaccine in Europe that protects piglets against both Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) infections during the finishing period.

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FDA OKs Cubist antibiotic for serious infections

2014-12-20 02:18:07| Biotech - Topix.net

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination medicine to fight complex infections in the abdomen and urinary tract, the fourth antibiotic the agency has approved this year. The approval of Zerbaxa is the second antibiotic approval this year for Cubist Pharmaceuticals, which agreed earlier this month to be acquired for $8.4 billion by the world's fourth-biggest drug maker, Merck & Co.

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