Vietnam: Vaccine for #H5N1 R-5

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Similarly, although the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to discontinue vaccination bird flu from 6/2011, however, the Research Center ducks Dai Xuyen, is buying vaccine H5N1 Re-5 from Company Limited Veterinary NAVETCO with 300 y / dose injected regularly to poultry. Under this unit, through the analysis of veterinary samples 1 shows the antibody effect is from 95-100%.

Vaccine: There is concern

Many people said that, to combat avian influenza, have carried out comprehensive measures to livestock biosecurity, from control of food, equipment and tools to people out on ... and of course vaccine to prevent infection. Mr. Nguyen Van Quynh, The Director of Veterinary Hai Duong province, one of 10 provinces now have bird flu, said while no alternative at present, MARD should continue influenza vaccination poultry. Because if H5N1 vaccine effectiveness of Re-5 reached for the 2.3.2 branch A is 70%, also a high rate. Moreover, if only by common management measures will be very difficult to control the epidemic, especially on the forum duck. Hai Duong Veterinary Department has also recommended for Animal Health Department Re-5 200 000 doses of vaccine to encircle the outbreak.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Trong, director of the Center for Research duck Dai Xuyen that, rather than the current vaccine supply, the State should have a mechanism for socialization of bird flu vaccine inoculation. Such as the new momentum has been created for the people's sense of self-herd vaccination and a mechanism for businesses involved in vaccine production. "If the bird flu vaccine production are socialized, we no longer have to worry about dependency on foreign sources of vaccine" - said Mr Trong.

At the meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat also directed the Veterinary Department to review, reassess the disease situation, taking samples for analysis at the local level. Based on that report with specific recommendations on how to implement the vaccination bird flu vaccine. Based on that, the Ministry will determine the solution to quickly stamp out epidemics and prevent diseases from spreading.
Thien Tu