Marek&#039;s Disease Content / Marek&#039;s Disease Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en Vaccines Hitch a Genomic Ride to Ward off Deadly Chicken Disease /news/mareks-disease-study-0 <p>A new study from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes how vaccines insert themselves into the chicken’s chromosomes to&nbsp;work against Marek's disease, a deadly virus of chickens, and how the vaccine's activity could offer a model for related human herpesvirus&nbsp;diseases such as chickenpox.</p> November 17, 2016 - 4:18pm Patricia Bailey /news/mareks-disease-study-0