Saturday, August 14, 2010

Vietnam: No vaccine for blue ear pig disease prevention

Previously reported here

At the conference, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced a new decoding genetic information swine blue ear virus in the South. Accordingly, this is a highly pathogenic virus strains similar to the group viruses have caused disease outbreaks in the North earlier this year....
Minister Cao Duc Phat direction: the virulence of the virus is now much higher than the previous year should be prevention and control at the local level should be much more drastic.

08/14/2010

Blue ear pig outbreaks in southern

China will support Vietnam 200,000 doses of blue ear pig vaccine. However, so far no vaccine that provides high efficiency.

No vaccine for blue ear pig disease prevention

On 13 / 8, in meeting urgent prevention and control diseases in pigs in southern Vietnam, Mr Hoang Van Nam, Director of Animal Health authorities warn Blue ear pig growing and complex outbreaks in the provinces of the south. Able South region will continue to appear as a set of new blue ear pig. So far no vaccine is highly effective in the prevention of blue ear pig disease.

Mr. Nguyen Tung, Deputy Director of Animal Health Diagnostic Center, said the central blue ear pig disease virus this year is identical strain of blue ear pig in 2007. Mr Tung said, coming, China will support Vietnam 200,000 doses of blue ear pig vaccine. However, so far no blue ear pig vaccine which provides high efficiency. Evidence that many pigs have been vaccinated but still infected.

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