Naro researchers set to roll out tick vaccine for livestock
May 19, 2021 Cow on a farm
Ugandan livestock farmers are set to reap big when the National Livestock Resources Research Institute (NaLIRRI) completes final trials of the anti-tick vaccine within the next few months.
Dr Fredrick Kabi, the lead researcher on the vaccine at NaLIRRI, says the process is moving smoothly and before the end of the year, livestock diseases caused by ticks will be a thing of the past.
“It has taken us more than six years of immense research into getting rid of the ticks that transmit East Coast fever to livestock and I can assure all trials so far have returned positive results. The ticks keep mutating and of late had become resistant to acaricides but with this vaccine, livestock is going be safe,” he says.
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