MEDICINE FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING PORCINE EPIDEMIC DIARRHEA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a medicine capable of preventing and treating porcine epidemic diarrhea by including a specific antibody capable of especially binding to porcine epidemic diarrhea. SOLUTION: This medicine contains a milk or its ingredient collected from a cow immunized with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus or a whole egg liquid, yolk or yolk antibody obtained from a hen immunized with the virus. For example, the virus is inoculated singly or in the form of a mixture or emulsion with Freund's complete adjuvant, etc., in a milk-collecting cow whose pregnancy period is 6 to 9 months for each 7 to 14 days twice to six times by a hypodermic administration method, etc., and the milk containing the specific antibody is subsequently collected from the cow. For example, the medicine is added to an artificial milk, etc., and subsequently orally administered as the milk or yolk at a daily dose of 0.1-20 ml/kg of a body weight.