Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Indonesia: Bird Flu Vaccination Less Effective

TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 2009 | 22:00 WIB

JAKARTA, TUESDAY - Vaccination bird flu in poultry is not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans. In fact, vaccination is the indiscriminate violence can increase the level of the virus and potentially spread to the big man.

According to researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center (TDDC) Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh, Tuesday (6 / 1), in Jakarta, the research shows that vaccination is done on all types of poultry, both domestic poultry or village or broiler, no useful to prevent infection in humans.

In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of chickens vaccinated poultry and bird flu that is not given the vaccine. Once exposed to the virus of bird flu, the chicken does not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken that has been divaksin and form healthy antibodinya visible although the virus has been presented with that.

But in fact feses or chicken dung divaksin that already contains the positive bird flu virus until the sixth day or the last day of the laboratory examination. "Thus, the aspect of the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination does not have any benefits, but can prevent death in poultry," he said.

Therefore, the government should divert the funds that mass vaccination for bird flu into the funds for compensation for farmers who unggasnya dead fell ill due to bird flu. That needs to be done is to control bird flu nationwide to map areas where the infected birds have bird flu, he said.

In addition, restructuring the poultry industry urged to do. One is, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, the poultry traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu can not only breeders, but it must be a national scale," said Nidom.

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