No need to vaccinate birds for flu: ministry
Thailand does not need to vaccine poultry against bird flu because the situation remains under control, despite another outbreak of the troubling disease, Agriculture Ministry deputy permanent secretary Yukol Limlamthong said yesterday.
Yokul said a committee set up to find ways to deal with bird flu had concluded that vaccinating poultry was unnecessary.Earlier this month, a new outbreak of the disease was detected at a duck farm in Phitsanulok. Yukol said the committee concluded the situation remained under control. "But if the need arises, the vaccine should be used as a supplementary measure," he said. The Livestock Development Department is developing laboratory to produce a vaccine for the strain of bird flu prevalent in Thailand. "The research should be completed within two months," Yokul said, adding that the vaccine would be used only if an outbreak virus spreads dramatically.
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