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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    Cuffey the AHS Trust are funded by - Racing SA. Equine Research Centre (ERC) are in a big way funded by - Racing SA. ERC does the testing of samples. Who benefits from export bans lifted when we have no/few positive results - Racing SA. Come on people - surely anybody can connect the dots.
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    AHS-Equilink you can get as technical as you like . The bottom line stays the same. OBP is a privately owned company - privately owned by the state.How does that make them different than the state? They might all be called different names and different departments - still remains the same thing...
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    Yes, and that is why we are trying to find out exactly what is patented. Will this further their monopoly? We need an inactivated (dead) vaccine without the huge risk of causing outbreaks,developed and registered internationally and thereby bypassing this whole unhealthy situation.This is not...
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    Pharma is not the problem here at all.The goverment developed the vaccine 50 years ago. The people manufacturing, controlling and distributing the vaccine all are the same people.Furthermore the same people also have to authorise competing vaccine development.On top of that they are also the...
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    By injecting a vaccine that you know might very well kill, constitutes the intention to harm being present, and therefore should be seen as harming a horse.
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    How can the right to develop a working vaccine to stop the carnage belong to anyone? These people clearly do not have the best interest of our horses at heart. If they did they would embrace every possible progress from whomever is capable of applying their knowledge in the development of such a...
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    Any technical people pls. New African Horse Sickness Vaccine patented

    By law ALL our horse owners in South Africa have to vaccinate our horses. Not only for movement into certain areas. Everytime we vaccinate we play russian roulette - maybe we kill them, maybe we don't. Is that acceptable anywhere else in the world? I think not. The same people responsible for...
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    African Horse Sickness--are we ready?

    The vaccine does not give the required protection, and as it is a live vaccine can actually cause an outbreak. Here is a link to a Facebook group with over 2000 members across the world where owners are trying to help one another cope with this disease...
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