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New foot-and-mouth vaccine signals huge advance

28/03/2013

Scientists in the UK have developed a new methodology to produce a vaccine for the cattle disease foot-and-mouth which has been described as a “major breakthrough”. Because the vaccine is synthetic, made up of tiny protein shells designed to trigger optimum immune response, it doesn’t rely on growing live infectious virus and is therefore much...

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