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Gov’t Animal Quarantine Agency Acquires Know-how to Make Bird Flu Vaccine

SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s animal quarantine agency said Sunday that is has acquired know-how to make its own bird flu vaccines. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA) said that it has developed candidate vaccine materials for its “antigen bank” that targets the H5N6 and H5N1 strains of avian influenza (AI). [...]

S. Korea’s Animal Quarantine Agency Develops Diagnosis Kit for FMD

S. Korea’s Animal Quarantine Agency Develops Diagnosis Kit for FMD

SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s animal quarantine agency said Sunday that its has developed the world’s first diagnosis kit that can simultaneously check three different types of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) strains. The kit is able to detect the O, A and Asia 1 serum types of the highly contagious disease that affects [...]