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Rinderpest vaccines

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

PONG-TAMALE VETERINARY STATION. NORTHERN TERRITORIES, GOLD COAST, 1947-08-21

 Item — Paper 56: Series Series 3
Identifier: Paper 56
Scope and Contents

115.10.1 -- Recto ; GH-53-1 -- Verso

Dates: 1947-08-21

PONG-TAMALE VETERINARY STATION. NORTHERN TERRITORIES, GOLD COAST

 Item — Photograph 58: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 58
Scope and Contents (1) ; D.W.4638.- ; Hyperimmunising serum bullocks against rinderpest.  The animals are first immunised against the disease and are then made hyper-immune by the injection of a large quantity of virulent rinderpest blood.  Hence the serum is full of anti-bodies against the disease and the animals are bled regularly in order to produce anti-rinderpest serum which is then used to immunise the cattle of the country which are treated at district camps when two year old, and the treatment confers...
Dates: ca. 1935-1977