Indonesia: No Bird Flu Vaccines Effective

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No Bird Flu Vaccines Effective
Wednesday, 7 January 2009 | 01:03 WIB

Jakarta, Kompas - The bird flu vaccine on poultry need to be reset. This is because vaccination was not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans.

As made Kompas, hundreds of members Himpunan breeder poultry farmer Local Indonesia (Himpuli) began the bird flu virus vaccination (AI). The results of research NGOs Civas show, vaccination in poultry does not significantly improve the local immune.

Similar research conducted by researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh. In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of vaccinated chickens and chicken AI that is not given the vaccine.

Once exposed to the AI virus, the chickens do not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken and the divaksin form antibodinya appear healthy.

But in fact feses (dirt) that chicken is positive divaksin contain AI virus sixth day until the last day or laboratory examination. "From the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination is not useful, but it can prevent death in poultry," said Nidom, Tuesday (6 / 1), when contacted from Jakarta.

"This raises a concern in the community, including the breeder, because there are no signs of infection early," he said. So far, signs of infection of bird flu known if there is a lot of dead poultry.

Results of research on the 500 chicken samples in the traditional market in Surabaya, in 2008, showed, there was a potential H5N1 virus can spread to humans. After diisolasi, the virus is more vicious virus-virus before. "Thus, the indiscriminate use of the vaccine can increase the violence virus," he said.

Divert funds

Therefore, the government should divert the funds to become a mass vaccination of funds for compensation for the farmers who died unggasnya fell ill due to bird flu. "What needs to be done is bird flu surveillance nationwide to map the birds infected with bird flu," he said.

vSelain, the restructuring of poultry industry urged to do. One of them, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, poultry to control the traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu should be national," said Nidom.

Do not have an effective

Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Tjeppy D Soedjana admitted to this government does not yet have an effective vaccine AI combat bird flu that attack poultry.

"The government has been making various efforts, including working with the OIE reference laboratory for isolat create the vaccine from the right that we find in the field," he said. About when the vaccine is made is completed, it depends on the hard work of the FAO-OIE.

The Executive Director of Animal Health Deptan Agus Wiyono said, AI vaccines that have now been quite effective.

The issue of AI virus in Indonesia is quite complex because there are different types of the virus depends on the location. There are viruses that are already far serologis mutasinya or violent, but there are not too far-currently used as a source (master seed) vaccine. (Evy / MAS)