Boehringer Ingelheim debuts poultry virus vaccine in Egypt

German pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim’s animal health unit has launched a new vaccine in Egypt to guard against Marek’s disease (MD), a contagious virus that affects poultry, according to an emailed statement (pdf). Egypt is the first country in which the company is debuting the vaccine, where poultry flocks have seen “recurrent outbreaks of MD with increases in virus virulence.”