H5N2 vaccines have been most effective internationally recognized

December 11, 2008

Newly discovered infectious diseases of animals and members of the Scientific Committee on Lo Wing-lok said that in Hong Kong in 2003 to combat avian flu started to vaccinate local chickens, and to Mexico by the research and development of vaccines for H5N2 vaccine designated. At that time, Mexico's largest farm outbreak of avian flu, a serious situation  almost to the Mexican farm will be destroyed , Mexico for the development of H5N2 vaccine to help themselves. In Hong Kong in 2002 to prepare for local chickens were vaccinated before the experiment had confirmed H5N2 vaccine to protect and begin to adopt the role so far.

Food and Health Bureau said that the Netherlands has been used in the manufacture of H5N2 vaccine, the vaccine in 2003 is considered to be the most effective, as the bird flu virus in the past 6 years, a slight change, although there was no person to person, or become even more poisonous The virus, but there is still a certain degree of change, it will examine the need to convert the new vaccine.