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Vietnam negotiates with Russia on importing bird flu vaccines
Vietnam will soon import 30-50 million doses of bird flu poultry
vaccine from Russia, according to local media reports.
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is
negotiating with Russia on the purchase of the bird
flu vaccines which will be used nationwide in late 2006 and early 2007.
To be more active in vaccination, Vietnam plans to use locally developed bird
flu vaccines in the coming years. Two local firms have so far produced 200,000
doses of vaccines on trial basis, according to the Department of Animal Health
under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnam has so far this year vaccinated nearly 134 million poultry
nationwide. Testing of 10,621 specimens from vaccinated chickens and ducks
indicated that 75 percent have developed antibodies against bird flu virus
strain H5.
Vietnam had a total poultry population of 254 million by late 2002, and it
has grown annually by an average of 6.5 percent. Bird flu outbreaks, which began
in December 2003, have led to the forced culling of tens of millions of birds.
The last outbreak of bird flu among poultry in Vietnam was in December 2005,
according to the department.
Editor WorldPoultry
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