How Australia fought off equine influenza

The successful eradication of equine influenza from Australia was one of the greatest achievements of veterinary medicine in recent years, a recently published review suggests.

The review by Dr Romain Paillot, who is head of immunology in the Infectious Diseases Department at Britain’s Animal Health Trust, and Dr Charles El-Hage, from the Centre for Equine Infectious Diseases at the University of Melbourne, examined the use of a recombinant canarypox-based equine flu vaccine during the 2007 outbreak.

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