abortion vaccine

English

Noun

abortion vaccine (plural abortion vaccines)

1. A vaccine which prevents certain diseases known to cause spontaneous abortion in livestock.
   • 1922, Frederick Brown Hadley, An Experimental Study of Infectious Abortion in Swine, page 29:

     These results harmonize with those secured by the writers some years ago in heifers vaccinated by these two different methods in that abortion vaccine is not effective unless administered in relatively large doses, and subcutaneously rather than intravenously.

   • 1933, Manley Alexander Raymond Kelley, Corncribs for the Corn Belt, p. 13:

     The results of earlier experiments indicated that when abortion vaccine was administered to unbred stock the living abortion germs which it contained did not long remain active within the animal.

   • 2009, Neil Sargison, Sheep Flock Health: A Planned Approach, page 56:

     Ideally sheep should not be vaccinated with a live enzootic abortion vaccine within 4 weeks of toxoplasmosis vaccination, although in practice it is acceptable to administer both products on different sides of the neck at the same time.