News Releases

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31 January 2012Merck/MSD Animal Health Headquarters in New Jersey, USBoxmeer (the Netherlands), January 31, 2012 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada, today announced that it intends to centralize certain functions at the ...
24 January 2012Merck Animal Health Enters Public-Private Partnership to Develop Innovative Strategies to Complement Bovine Mastitis TreatmentFocus on Development of Vaccines Against Evasion MoleculesBOXMEER (The Netherlands), January 24, 2012 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) today announces that ...
13 December 2011New Single Shot Vaccine Protects rabbits Against Myxomatosis and Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD)BOXMEER (The Netherlands), December 13, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) is launching NOBIVAC® Myxo-RHD in the European Union, the first single shot vaccine ...
30 November 2011Merck Animal Health Launches AQUAVAC Strep Sa for Fighting Streptococcosis in Tilapia, Other SpeciesBOXMEER (The Netherlands), November 30, 2011 — Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) has obtained regulatory approval in Brazil to begin marketing AQUAVAC® Strep ...
18 November 2011Global Animal Management Launches eyeD Equine Identification SystemBOXMEER (The Netherlands), November 18, 2011 – Global Animal Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada), introduced this week ...
7 November 2011Swine Dewormer PANACUR AquaSol Receives Positive Opinion in the European UnionBOXMEER (Netherlands), November 7, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) announced today that it has received positive opinion from the CVMP in the European ...
26 October 2011Merck Animal Health Launches EXPERTIS Udder Health, a Farm Management Tool for Veterinarians to Improve Udder Health in Dairy CattleBOXMEER (Netherlands), October 26, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) has launched EXPERTIS® Udder Health, an innovative farm management tool for veterinarians ...
25 October 2011Merck Animal Health Announces European Union Approval for PORCILIS M Hyo ID ONCE Swine VaccineBOXMEER (Netherlands), October 25, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) today announced that it has received marketing authorization in the European Union ...
22 September 2011Merck Animal Health Debuts new Look, Focuses on Science at International Poultry CongressesBOXMEER, The Netherlands, September 22, 2011 — Merck Animal Health (MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada), formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, used eye-catching exhibits ...
15 September 2011Candidate Vaccine Against Deadly Pneumonia in FoalsBOXMEER (The Netherlands), September 15, 2011 - Rhodococcus equi bacteria can cause “rattles”, a potentially lethal disease in foals which is characterized by pneumonia and gastro-intestinal infection. ...
7 September 2011Merck Animal Health Introduces ZUPREVO for Treatment, Prevention of Bovine Respiratory DiseaseBOXMEER, the Netherlands, September 7, 2011 – Merck Animal Health today announced the official launch of ZUPREVO® (tildipirosin) — a novel macrolide antibiotic for the management of bovine respiratory ...
25 August 2011Merck Animal Health Expands Vaccine Manufacturing Unit at Elkhorn Biotechnology Excellence CenterELKHORN, NE, United States, August 25, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada), formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, has opened today an expansion ...
23 August 2011Merck Appoints Richard R. DeLuca Jr. as President, Merck Animal HealthFormer Becton Dickinson and Wyeth Executive Joins MerckWHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. – August 23, 2011 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment ...
10 August 2011Merck Animal Health Supports Recovery of the Japanese Animal SectorBOXMEER, the Netherlands, August 10, 2011 – Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada), formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced today that ...
28 July 2011Dieter Lütticken Award 2010 Granted to Hans-Peter Ottiger for Alternative Purity Test for Avian VaccinesBOXMEER, the Netherlands, July 28, 2011 – Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced today that the Dieter Lütticken Award 2010, an international annual award ...
20 July 2011Merck Animal Health Breaks Ground for $18 Million Vaccine Plant ExpansionBOXMEER, the Netherlands, July 20, 2011 – Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced today that it has embarked on the expansion of a vaccine manufacturing ...
29 June 2011Merck Announces New Name for its Animal Health DivisionBOXMEER, the Netherlands, June 29, 2011 – Merck’s (NYSE: MRK) animal health division, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced that effective today it will begin using the new ...
16 June 2011European approval for intramuscular administration route of NUFLOR MinidoseBOXMEER (the Netherlands), June 16, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced today that it has recently received approval via the decentralized procedure in the European Union for the intramuscular ...
14 June 2011BacuCheck ELISA test checks PORCILIS PCV vaccination comlianceBOXMEER (the Netherlands), June 14, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has introduced BacuCheck™, a simple ELISA test for confirmation of vaccination status with PORCILIS® PCV of piglets against ...
11 May 2011Improved vaccine against progressive atrophic rhinitis in swine launched by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal HealthBoxmeer (the Netherlands), May 11, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that it is introducing PORCILIS® AR-T DF, an inactivated vaccine against progressive atrophic rhinitis ...
12 April 2011Field study confirms protection of piglets against porcine circovirus-associated disease by vaccination with PORCILIS PCVBoxmeer (the Netherlands), April 12, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that a field trial with the single-dose subunit vaccine PORCILIS® PCV has confirmed that vaccination ...
22 March 2011Merck and sanofi-aventis to maintain separate businesses in animal healthWhitehouse Station, NJ and Paris, France - March 22, 2011 - Merck (NYSE: MRK) and sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today the mutual termination of their agreement to form a new animal ...
4 March 2011Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health completes delivery of 12 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine to the government of South KoreaBoxmeer (the Netherlands), March 4, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that it has shipped 12 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine to South Korea to assist ...
15 February 2011Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health grants rights to pancreas disease vaccine patent portfolioBOXMEER (The Netherlands), February 15, 2011 — Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has granted Novartis Animal Health exclusive rights to part of its patent portfolio for pancreas disease (PD) vaccines.The ...
27 January 2011Candidate vaccine against Rhodococcus equi infections in foals to be investigated in field trial in GermanyBoxmeer (the Netherlands), January 27, 2011 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that it is entering the final stage of development of a vaccine against Rhodococcus equi, a bacteria ...
30 November 2010Novel single-dose broad-spectrum dog dewormer demonstrates good efficacy and is readily consumedBoxmeer (the Netherlands), November 30, 2010 – The broad-spectrum anthelmintic combination preparation for dogs PLERION® (5 mg pyrantel + 20 mg oxantel + 5 mg praziquantel per kg body weight) is an efficacious ...
11 November 2010Studio Bovine to webcast from World Buiatrics Conference 2010 in Santiago de ChileBoxmeer (the Netherlands), October 11, 2010 – Studio Bovine, an intitiative of Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, has recently been launched in order to webcast via a dedicated online TV channel ...
9 November 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health expands veterinary vaccine manufacturing facility at Biosciences Center BoxmeerBoxmeer (the Netherlands), November 9, 2010 – Today, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced that it has opened a specialized filling and freeze-drying unit for veterinary vaccines at its Biosciences ...
4 October 2010New canine ear infection treatment combines three powerful agents in once-a-day therapyBOXMEER (The Netherlands), October 4, 2010 – A new once-a-day treatment for otitis externa (inflammation of the outer ear and ear canal) in dogs is now available from Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, ...
30 September 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health sponsors Equine Business Management Strategies programBOXMEER (The Netherlands), September 30, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sponsor the Equine Business Management Strategies (EBMS) ...
27 July 2010Sanofi-aventis and Merck appoint Raul Kohan as CEO for the new Animal Health joint ventureParis, France and Whitehouse Station, NJ – July 27, 2010 – Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) announced today that Raul E. Kohan will be appointed Chief ...
22 July 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health demonstrates efficacy of simultaneous use of circovirus and mycoplasma vaccines in swineSimultaneous (mixed) use of existing swine vaccines against porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) from Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health in swine are as efficacious and ...
23 June 2010Deltamethrin-impregnated collar provides a cost-effective solution to control canine and human LeishmaniasisBOXMEER (The Netherlands) June 23, 2010 - Delegates at the 2nd International Congress on Canine Leishmaniasis, which was recently held in the Italian city of Pisa, heard how a readily-available deltamethrin-impregnated ...
22 June 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health receives positive opinion in Europe for simultaneous use of PORCILIS PRRS and PORCILIS M Hyo vaccines in pigletsBOXMEER (the Netherlands), June 22, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announces today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) of the European Medicines Agency ...
9 June 2010Dieter Lütticken Award 2009 for development of in vitro bovine respiratory tract organ culture modelBOXMEER (Netherlands), June 9, 2010 – The Dieter Lütticken Award 2009, a prestigious international annual award dedicated to alternatives in animal testing for veterinary medicines, goes to Dr. A.W. (Dan) ...
1 June 2010Equine strangles vaccine returns to the market in EuropeBOXMEER (the Netherlands), June 1, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, the European market leader in equine vaccines, today announces that it is re-introducing EQUILIS® StrepE, the only strangles ...
27 May 2010Study shows cost-effectiveness of RESFLOR in feedlot cattle treated for undifferentiated fever related to Bovine Respiratory DiseaseBOXMEER (Netherlands), May 27, 2010 – In a Canadian field trial in feedlot cattle recently published in Veterinary Therapeutics, it was demonstrated that treatment of undifferentiated fever related to ...
10 May 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health introduces the SLICE Sustainability Project at Sea Lice 2010BOXMEER (The Netherlands), May 10, 2010 — Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has introduced the SLICE® Sustainability Project, a comprehensive, six-step integrated strategy to help the world’s salmon ...
29 April 2010Pancreatic disease vaccine patent of Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health upheld by Oslo District CourtBOXMEER (Netherlands) and OSLO (Norway), April 29, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that the Oslo District Court has ruled that its Pancreatic Disease (PD) patent NO 317.547 ...
22 April 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health opens state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing facility at Biosciences Center BoxmeerBOXMEER (Netherlands), April 22, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces that it will open today a state-of-the-art production center for veterinary vaccines against bacterial infections. ...
1 April 2010Consortium receives research grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop improved vaccines against foot-and-mouth diseaseBOXMEER (Netherlands), April 1, 2010 – An international collaborative group of research institutions and industry today announces that it has received approximately US$ 2 million from the Wellcome Trust ...
19 March 2010Broadcasting website offers dairy professionals virtual presence at international mastitis conference in New ZealandBoxmeer, March 19, 2010 - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health launches the website Studio Recharge, broadcasting to the global dairy community from the 5th International Dairy Federation (IDF) Mastitis ...
9 March 2010Sanofi-aventis and Merck to create a Global Leader in Animal HealthSanofi-aventis exercises its option to combine Merial with Intervet/Schering-Plough in a new equally-owned Joint Venture with MerckParis, France and Whitehouse Station, NJ. – March 9, 2010 – Sanofi-aventis ...
27 January 2010Intestinal Health Center for Poultry website offers rich content, dynamic featuresBOXMEER (Netherlands), January 27, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has launched the Intestinal Health Center for Poultry website (www.ihc-poultry.com), a dedicated website to keep producers, ...
26 January 2010Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health receives European approval for a single-shot dosage scheme of PORCILIS PCVBOXMEER (Netherlands), January 26, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health today announces that it has received marketing authorization from the European Commission on January 12, 2010 for a single-shot ...
13 January 2010Symposium shows importance of managing Bovine Respiratory Disease 'right first time' with combination treatmentBOXMEER (Netherlands), January 13, 2010 – Treatment of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in cattle with a combination preparation consisting of the anti-infective drug florfenicol and the anti-inflammatory ...