[New drugs for horses and production animals in 2024]

In 2024, there was no release of a novel pharmaceutical agent for horses and food-producing animals or an extension of existing active ingredients to other animal species on the German veterinary medicinal products market. Formic acid is now available for a new form of treatment, the short-term treatment of honeybees, and clenbuterol is available in a new dosage form, as an oral solution for horses. In the field of immunological veterinary medicinal products, three new vaccines were launched on the German veterinary medicinal products market. For the first time, a vaccine against Cryptosporidium parvum in cattle, against Mycoplasma bovis also in cattle and against the H9 subtype of avian influenza in chicken are available. For pigs, a new vaccine with a known pathogen combination with type 2d of porcine circovirus, a new miscibility and needle-free application of products against respiratory pathogens and a new combination with serovar 11 in addition to serovars 2 and 9 of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae were approved. Furthermore, a new trivalent combination of three known vaccine antigens and a new miscibility of two products against diarrheal pathogens are available for pigs. A new recombinant combination product against infectious bursitis, infectious laryngotracheitis and Marek's disease has been approved for chicken. New administration methods were introduced to the market for a vaccine against bovine coronavirus (nasal) in cattle and porcine circovirus and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (needleless) in pigs.