The Institute of Serum and Veterinary Vaccines in Abbasiya, Egypt, is set to inaugurate a new poultry vaccine production line, set to produce over 1.2 billion doses of veterinary vaccines annually. The institute, which was established in 1903 and has a long history of producing vaccines against various animal and poultry diseases, is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture. It has 14 departments, including research and production of domestic pet vaccines, foot-and-mouth disease research, genetic engineering research, and production of the rinderpest vaccine. The institute has a capacity to produce 6 million doses of the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine annually and has successfully used the Roman strain sheep pox vaccine to immunize livestock against streptococcal skin disease.