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Innovative products and solutions that make a difference, improving poultry health, welfare, and productivity.

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Delivering Poultry Solutions and Innovation that Producers can Depend on

For more than 80 years, our poultry health solutions and platforms have always been rooted in discovery. From developing the first vaccine for fowl pox to launching digital health tracking tools, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of poultry research and development to deliver new solutions to improve flock health, welfare and performance.

Merck Animal Health is dedicated to developing cutting-edge solutions that improve the health, well-being, and performance of poultry.

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Breeders

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Vaccines

Disease Prevention to Improve Flock Health

The poultry industry demands innovations to address emerging diseases. Our wide portfolio of vaccines helps protect chickens from major poultry pathogens including infectious bronchitis virus, infectious laryngotracheitis virus, Newcastle disease virus, infectious bursal disease virus, avian reoviruses, coccidiosis and other pathogens.

Parasiticides

Parasite Control That Helps Keep Poultry Healthy

Without proper control and management, parasites can rapidly infect the whole flock and undermine the flock’s performance and health.

We provide solutions to help control internal parasites like coccidiosis, and external parasites, such as poultry red mites.

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Enhancing Multivalent Inactivated Vaccines for Long-Living Birds

Poultry is a cornerstone of global food security. It provides affordable, high-quality protein in the form of both meat and eggs, feeding billions of people worldwide.

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Merck Animal Health Announces FDA Approval of EXZOLT™ (fluralaner oral solution) for Chickens, the First Systemic Treatment for Northern Fowl Mites

Innovative oral solution offers a safe and effective approach to combat northern fowl mite infestations in poultry RAHWAY, N.J., July 18, 2025 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced the U.S. Food and

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Merck Animal Health Receives Positive CVMP Opinion for INNOVAX®-ND-IBD-ILT for Use in Chickens

RAHWAY, NJ, May 16, 2025 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP) issued a positive opinion for the INNOVAX®-ND-IBD-ILT vaccine.

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Merck Animal Health Announces the European Approval of NOBILIS MULTRIVA™ REOm for Use in Chickens 

New vaccine reduces viraemia and clinical signs of disease caused by avian reovirus, expanding NOBILIS MULTRIVA portfolio RAHWAY, N.J., March 27, 2025 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), announced that the European Commission has

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