Have you heard of Thelaziosis? In Europe, some fruit flies host an emerging parasite known as “eyeworm”, an infestation which causes more or less severe conjunctivitis, sometimes leading to corneal ulcers and even blindness in dogs.
Teshome Mebatsion, Head of Viral Diseases Research at Boehringer Ingelheim, talks about the avian influenza virus, ways of prevention and scenarios for the future.
Vaccine design technologies have made huge advances in recent years. One of the newer categories of vaccine, vectored vaccines, is overcoming challenges that conventional vaccines do not meet.