MedPage Today August 25, 2024
— The National Animal Disease Center is currently testing a cow vaccine designed to stop the spread
AMES, Iowa — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are not farmers, and other buildings look more like what you’d find at a modern university than in a cow pasture.
Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows, and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently spreading through U.S. animals — and develop ways to stop it.
Particularly important is the...
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