Using Off-the-Shelf Technologies to Mass Manufacture Oral Vaccine Baits for Wildlife

J Wildl Dis. 2017 Jul;53(3):681-685. doi: 10.7589/2017-01-013. Epub 2017 Mar 31.

Abstract

Technology and infrastructure costs can limit access to oral vaccination tools for wildlife disease control. We describe vaccine bait mass manufacturing employing off-the-shelf technologies. Our approach has helped advance scaling-up of plague vaccination campaigns, but components of this production system could be translated into other wildlife vaccination applications.

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Animals
  • Animals, Wild*
  • Plague / prevention & control
  • Plague Vaccine / administration & dosage
  • Rabies / prevention & control
  • Rabies Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Vaccination / veterinary
  • Vaccines / administration & dosage*

Substances

  • Plague Vaccine
  • Rabies Vaccines
  • Vaccines