Egypt produces new avian flu vaccine for poultry

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Egypt produces new avian flu vaccine
BY Amina Abdul Salam
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 05:32:22 PM

Given this background, a welcome announcement was made yesterday by the National Research Centre (NRC) in Cairo of the first vaccine against what is popularly known as ?bird flu? to be produced by Egyptian scientists. The Government has been importing vaccine at high prices so as to fight this national problem and the new vaccine is now available in the local market at LE305 (about $60) for 100 doses.
The conference was attended by the Minister of Scientific Research Dr Nadia Zakhary, head of Veterinary Services Authority Dr Osama Selim and the head of NRC Dr Ashraf Shaalan.
The scientists stressed that the vaccine produced by the NRC research team has proved its effectiveness, reaching 95 per cent. The imported vaccine achieved an efficacy rate ranging from 20 to 25 per cent, because of the type of virus hitting poultry in Egypt and the vaccine being produced far from the local environment...

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Re: Egypt produces new avian flu vaccine for poultry

Machine Translation from Arabic.
The efficacy rate of imported vaccine is 20 to 25 per cent. The efficacy rate of locally produced vaccine reaches 95 percent But there is still a need for greater vaccine production

the vaccine will be used in immunization for free as much as quantities available to him, pointing out that Egypt needs to billion and 250 million doses per year, while the maximum of what can be supplied vaccines are more than 500 million doses, which underlines the need to expand the establishment of factories in the local veterinary vaccines.

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