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Speaker 1: Research underway on a new vaccine to prevent prevalent bow

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Speaker 1: bine disease costs our farmers one hundred and ninety million

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Speaker 1: dollars every year. Three vaccines currently available are only sixty

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Speaker 1: to sixty five percent effective. So MPI are backing this

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Speaker 1: new research, which is led by John Moffatt, who is

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Speaker 1: with us. John, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Is this exciting?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Reasonably yeah? And the violence think yes.

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Speaker 1: The reason I asked the question, are you on the

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Speaker 1: verge of something or is this sort of a fishing expedition?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, it's far more than a fifteen expedition, Mike.

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Speaker 2: The technology we're using is globally is reasonably familiar, and

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Speaker 2: we're adapting that technology for the New Zealand environment.

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Speaker 1: Really okay, so there is stuff out there that is

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Speaker 1: potentially more effective that if we adapted to us, then

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Speaker 1: we hit paid it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, potentially with all signs. You can't be absolutely, but yes,

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Speaker 2: exactly right, Miche.

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Speaker 1: What's the time frame on this.

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Speaker 2: All going? Well? We hope to be in the marketplace

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Speaker 2: registered in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: And does that have commercial implications globally? I mean, how

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Speaker 1: do these things work with NPI involved of you crack

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Speaker 1: a nut, do you get to own it, clip the ticket,

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Speaker 1: sell it, all of that sort of stuff, or you

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Speaker 1: don't work that way.

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Speaker 2: The partnership is a cross through organization, so MPI is

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Speaker 2: just one of the partners. Agra Health and jim Based

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Speaker 2: Animal Health Company is providing the majority of the support

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Speaker 2: for this project. So it ends up that they own

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Speaker 2: the rights to it and then we can make it

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Speaker 2: global essentially, but it's principally designed for the New Zealand farmers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, of all the things farmers face, where does bovine

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Speaker 1: fit and the problems around it and the lack of

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Speaker 1: effectiveness of the current vaccines, where.

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Speaker 2: Does it fit?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is this a major findings?

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Speaker 2: Are incredibly complex thing with all sorts of different threats,

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Speaker 2: you know, the price of fertilizer and fuel, etcetera. And

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Speaker 2: another animal health diseases as viral infection is probably one

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Speaker 2: of the most important that we deal with in the

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Speaker 2: cattle industry in this country. To put it in a perspective,

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Speaker 2: you know, it ranks up there with probably arguably with

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Speaker 2: things like internal parasites. As an infectious disease issue.

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Speaker 1: Well, we wish you the best with it. I hope

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Speaker 1: it goes well. We'll talk again when you crack it.

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Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you, John Moffatt. For more from

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