Ntional Veterinary Research Institute

Nigerian federal veterinary research institute at Vom in Plateau State, founded in 1924 as a veterinary research laboratory and now under the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria. Researches animal diseases and produces veterinary vaccines and biologicals for poultry, cattle, small ruminants and dogs, including Newcastle disease, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, peste des petits ruminants and rabies vaccines, runs diagnostic and quality control laboratories, a veterinary teaching hospital and the Vom college of animal health and husbandry technology.