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  • EGYPT - "Doubts about the validity of bird flu vaccines"

    Google-translated from Arabic:

    Doubts about the validity of bird flu vaccines .. The claims of the State of import monopoly

    Wrote Mitwalli Salem 5/1/2008

    Official sources revealed the Ministry of Agriculture and a number of experts expressed doubts about the validity of a large veterinary vaccines used for immunization of avian influenza in poultry farms, which are imported private companies, asking tighten control over the import procedures and handling of vaccines through immunization, the sources pointed to the involvement of many of these companies to import cheap veterinary vaccines not in conformity with the specifications.

    He called Dr. Mohamed El-Shafei, Vice President of the Federation of poultry producers, the need for the State to import veterinary vaccines used in the fight against bird flu, rather than private companies currently.

    She stressed that the high rates of infection in poultry farms in recent weeks, the supply of vaccines not match the terms of circulation, especially in light of the absence of state control on the circulation of vaccines in poultry farms, while proven vaccines imported by the State to immunize birds rural efficiency during the first national campaign to combat disease.

    He told "Egyptian Today": You must be a State is the only one in control of the circulation and import of all vaccines for diseases common between humans and animals, particularly with diseases such as epidemiological picture bird flu and fever, Rift Valley and elsewhere.

    He pointed out that this system also includes supervision of the circulation of veterinary vaccines and serums and appropriate storage methods, stressing that the circulation of vaccines more important than the vaccine itself, in reference to the vaccine if it conforms to specifications, and was stored in a non-scientific cause very dangerous for human beings and animals and the environment, and contributes to the spread of disease, rather than control.

    The President of the Federation of poultry producers on the importance of the obligation of the State, represented by its veterinary and other agencies concerned to check the incidence of disease and avian influenza birds, making sure the necessary cleansing action within the infected farm and the surrounding area before allowing these farms Exercise activity again.

    For his part, Dr Sami expected Bisatti, President of the General Egyptian Zoology, to continue the spread of the virus in the coming months if the State fails to control the importation and circulation of vaccines and serums anti avian influenza, especially in light of the potential effectiveness of vaccines imported by private companies from abroad or However, reliable sources of quality in the production of vaccines for the disease.

    He accused the National Committee to combat the disease not to set strict operational mechanisms to prevent the spread of the disease, stressing that the Commission were not a deterrent to violations and did not abide by the rules for handling live birds or bird immunization rural or poultry farms, which is reflected on the existence of dormant wells nationwide.

    He stressed the necessity that all subject serums and vaccines that are imported from abroad, for the calibration of specialized laboratories, and the State intensifying control over all operations and immunization circulation both in the farms or in rural education.

    ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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    Re: EGYPT - "Doubts about the validity of bird flu vaccines"

    New conditions on Import of Bird Flu Vaccines

    By Metwalli Salem 6/1/2008

    Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Amin Abaza unveiled that his ministry would prepare a study to determine the types of serums and vaccines the companies import from outside and set new conditions on private companies importing anti-bird flu vaccines.

    He said the most important of these conditions is that the companies must be registered in the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and that the vaccine must be effective against the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in Egypt.

    Commenting on the paper's yesterday exclusive report about the doubts over the validity of vaccines imported by these companies, the minister told al-Masry al-Youm that it is a scientific fact that the vaccine is not 100% effective against the disease, as its efficiency ranges between 75% and 90%, and that the circulation of vaccine is as important as the type of vaccine used in immunization, indicating that the ineffectiveness of vaccines imported from abroad is not in the interest of companies importing the vaccines.

    He noted that about more than one billion anti-bird flu doses have been imported either by the state or the private sector since February 17, 2006. "All of these doses have been tested in the ministry's Institute of Veterinary Vaccines," he added.

    Abaza stressed that all the vital safety regulations would be strictly applied and stringently enforced through the control of veterinary services affiliated with the General Authority for Veterinary Services, indicating that the increased number of infections in recent weeks were mainly attributable to the fact that many poultry farms are lax in applying vital safety standards, making them believe that they have entirely brought the virus under control.

    Abaza accused some owners of farms where bird flu infections are reported of selling the remaining stock in the other coops in several provinces, contributing to the spread of the virus to other areas instead of culling all birds in all the farm's coops. He maintained that this behavior is a crime against citizens and the State.

    ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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