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KENYA VETERINARY VACCINES PRODUCTION
INSTITUTE (KEVEVAPI)

       OUR PRODUCTS

1. Lumpivax-a freeze dried live attenuated       5. Fotivax TM- Inactivated Foot and Mouth
lumpy skin disease vaccine                       Disease Vaccine
Lumpy cattle skin disease characterized          Treats Foot and Mouth Disease
by fever, nodules on the skin, and mucous        Characterised by a vesicular condition of
membranes of internal organs, emaciation,        the feet, buccal mucosa and, in females, the
enlarged lymph nodes, edema of the skin and      mammary glands. Clinical signs can vary
occasionally death                               from mild to severe and fatalities may occur,
2. Poxvax-Inactivated fowl pox vaccine           especially in young animals. All the above
Treats slow-spreading fowl and turkeys           FMD serotypes produce identical clinical
caused by avian pox virus and characterized      signs, yet immunity to Foot and Mouth
by pox lesions on the skin of the head, and      disease is serotype-specific.
on the neck of turkeys. Especial for old birds.
                                                 6. Turkeyvax TM- Live Attenuated Turkey
3. Fowlvax TM- Inactivated Salmonella            Pox Virus Vaccine
gallinarum (Fowl typhoid)                        Treats Turkey pox is a disease caused by a
Treats Fowl typhoid which is a disease of        DNA virus of the genus Avipoxvirus of the
chickens caused by Salmonella gallinarum,        family Poxviridae. Characterised by the
often observed in the later growing              formation of proliferative lesions and scabs
period and in mature stock. Characterized        on the skin, and diphtheritic lesions in the
by septicaemia, with inappetence and,            upper parts of the digestive and respiratory
eventually, death.                               tracts.

4. Caprivax TM- Inactivated Contagious           7. S&G Vax TM- Live Attenuated Sheep and
Caprine Pleuropneumonia Vaccine                  Goat pox Virus Vaccine
Treats Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia        Treats sheep pox and goat pox are viral
(CCPP), is caused by Mycoplasma capricolum       diseases of sheep and goats characterised
subsp.                                           by fever, generalised papules or nodules,
                                                 vesicles (rarely), internal lesions (particularly
                                                 in the lungs), and death. Both diseases are
                                                 caused by strains of capripoxvirus, all of
                                                 which can infect sheep and goats.

                                                                                                           Contacts
                                                      Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute

                                                                                        P.O. BOX 53260 00200
                                                 Head Office, Embakasi off Enterprise Road, Road A,

                                                                                                 NAIROBI, KENYA
                                                                                                            Website

                                                                             http://kevevapi.org/index.php
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