Ames company will develop antidote to livestock disease

Ames company will develop antidote to livestock disease

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BPC Staff | Oct 18, 2012 | 6:55 pm |

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Homeland Security allocated at $1.1 million contract to treat infectious foot-and-mouth disease.

Ames-based Harrisvaccines has received a $1.1 million contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop a vaccine to prevent foot-and-mouth disease.

The disease is caused by a highly infectious virus, which was believed to have been eradicated in this country in the 1920s.

Last year, an Iowa State University report said foot-and-mouth disease “is considered by many to be the most economically devastating livestock disease in the world.”