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Research Project: NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and response-Investigation of HPAI Vaccine Efficacy in Cattle

Location: Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research

Project Number: 5030-32000-238-005-R
Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Apr 1, 2026
End Date: Sep 21, 2027

Objective:
Developing an effective highly pathogenic avian influenza bovine vaccine, a problem that is highly significant to the dairy industry. Dairy producers in the U.S. lose $950 per affected cow

Approach:
Cooperator will provide cattle that have been intra mammary vaccinated against highly pathogenic avian influenza which ARS with challenge in AG BSL3 to determine vaccine efficacy