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...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
Last week Main and other farmers were perplexed when the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under attack by critics, halted the sale of Omnivac-PRV, a new genetically engineered viral vaccine that immunizes swine against pseudorabies and may be the first of a whole generation of better animal vaccines. Main had participated in a field test of the vaccine last year by allowing 250 of his piglets to be inoculated. None of them or of others involved in the test contracted the disease, and in January the USDA licensed Biologics Corp., a vaccine manufacturer in Omaha, to put Omnivac...
Like earlier vaccines against pseudorabies, Biologics' Omnivac consists of pseudorabies viruses altered to prevent them from causing disease but still capable of triggering production of the antibodies that make swine immune. While the viruses in other vaccines are rendered harmless by conventional methods, the Omnivac viruses are altered by recombinant-DNA techniques--in other words, by genetic engineering, or gene splicing. Saul Kit, the Baylor University biochemical virologist who redesigned the virus, points out that existing pseudorabies vaccines, which raise no alarms, have also been produced by what is really a form of genetic engineering. One older vaccine, he explains...
...barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
Paul McCartney, 43, responding to his recently released 1981 comment that the late John Lennon was a "maneuvering swine": "I loved John. I'm not looking for anyone to say 'You're the one who did this or that.' It's that I love the truth...