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Fort Dodge Animal Health

Fort Dodge Animal Health is an American pharmaceutical manufacturing company based in Overland Park, Kansas.

History

Scientists at Fort Dodge Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed a DNA vaccine against West Nile virus (WNV).[1]

It was licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on July 18, 2005, becoming the first DNA vaccine approved by a regulatory agency for either veterinary or human use.[2][3]

  1. Davis, B. S., Chang, G.-J. J., Cropp, B., Roehrig, J. T., Martin, D. A., Mitchell, C. J., Bowen, R., & Bunning, M. L. (2001). West Nile Virus Recombinant DNA Vaccine Protects Mouse and Horse from Virus Challenge and Expresses In Vitro a Noninfectious Recombinant Antigen That Can Be Used in Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays.Journal of Virology, 75(9), 4040–4047. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.75.9.4040-4047.2001 ↩︎

  2. Lu, S., Grimes-Serrano, J. M., & Wang, S. (2009). DNA Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Infectious Diseases. Elsevier EBooks, 93–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-369408-9.00008-1 ↩︎

  3. Barakat, C. (2020, December 15). The equine contribution to the new CoVID-19 vaccine. Equus Magazine. http://archive.today/2022.08.30-160826/https://equusmagazine.com/news/horses-contribute-covid-vaccine/ ↩︎