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Dr Michelle Enslin is the regional product manager for pets at Boehringer Ingelheim India, Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, with divisions dedicated to human pharma, animal health and biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing. Visit boehringeringelheim.com/za.
"From the invention of a vaccine against smallpox by Edward Jenner in 1796, it took almost two centuries to eradicate the disease.
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who also developed the rabies vaccine, once said: “It is within the power of man to eradicate infection from the earth.”
That power has, so far, eradicated two infectious diseases: smallpox and rinderpest.
When it comes to protecting our animals’ health, vaccination…
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