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Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:06:32 PM
>surrogate virus, bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV).<
It may serve as a surrogate in the sense that if the vaccine doesn't work in that setting, culling the herd is the standard of care.
http://producer.wisdairy.com/dairyresources/userfiles/bvdv.htm
In other words, they may use that as a surrogate for the same reason they don't expose humans to anthrax when testing the efficacy of potential anthrax vaccines.
That and there is a separate market for BVDV vaccines...
It may serve as a surrogate in the sense that if the vaccine doesn't work in that setting, culling the herd is the standard of care.
http://producer.wisdairy.com/dairyresources/userfiles/bvdv.htm
In other words, they may use that as a surrogate for the same reason they don't expose humans to anthrax when testing the efficacy of potential anthrax vaccines.
That and there is a separate market for BVDV vaccines...
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