GUWAHATI, March 27 -- The Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) has successfully transferred a pioneering vaccine technology to BioMed Private Limited, a leading manufacturing company specialising in high-quality vaccines.

This technology entails a recombinant vector vaccine designed specifically for combating the classical swine fever virus in pigs and wild boars, filling a significant gap in India's vaccine landscape.

This first recombinant virus-based vaccine for pigs harnesses a reverse genetic platform pioneered and refined at IIT Guwahati. Swine fever, a highly contagious disease among pigs, poses a severe threat with a very high mortality rate, although it does not affect humans.

In India, instances of this dise...