Vaccination against CCPP in East Africa

In East Africa, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is rated by farmers as one of the top priority diseases in livestock, higher than contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP). In July 2019, several stakeholders held a workshop at the International Livestock Research Institute’s Kapiti Ranch in Kenya to obtain feedback on the use of the current CCPP bacterin vaccine, with the aim to gain a better understanding of whether a genetically modified live CCPP vaccine could be registered for use and its possible implementation. …