Researchers develop prototype vaccines for sheep flystrike

Vernon Graham
Updated March 17 2020 - 1:01pm, first published 1:00pm
THE HOLY GRAIL: Dr Tony Vuocolo needles a sheep with a prototype vaccine against flystrike. A commercial and effective blowfly vaccine is the Merino industry's holy grail.
THE HOLY GRAIL: Dr Tony Vuocolo needles a sheep with a prototype vaccine against flystrike. A commercial and effective blowfly vaccine is the Merino industry's holy grail.

Researchers are testing prototype flystrike vaccines using key proteins in blowfly larvae that are important for their growth and development.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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