The Norwegian Food Safety Authority change their regulations to allow vaccination of horses against equine strangles
In Norway it has not been allowed previously to vaccinate horses against strangles (infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi). However, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority has now announced that the ban on vaccinating horses against equine strangles has been removed. “Strangvac, Intervacc's vaccine against equine strangles, was approved in the autumn of 2021 for sale in Norway based on the European Medicines Agency's, EMA’s, recommendation. The change that the Norwegian Food Safety Authority has now implemented makes it possible for horses to be vaccinated against equine