Russian Academy Scientist Says R100m Needed to Produce Bird Flu Vaccine
Posted on: Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 06:00 CDT
A Russian scientist has said R100m is required to produce the necessary number of bird flu vaccines, Russian RIA-Novosti news agency reported on 7 September.
"The state budget must make R100m available" to produce the 40m necessary doses of the vaccine and the 20m reserve doses, the agency said, quoting Vladimir Fisinin, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He also said the isolated H5N1 strain's genetic structure remains unchanged for 20 years.
So far the private sector has lost R110m due to bird flu; 120,000 birds have died or been culled, the agency said, quoting
Anatoliy Smirnov, director of the scientific and research institute of veterinary sanitation, hygiene and ecology. Smirnov said the virus survives in frozen chickens for a year and a half and perishes during "thermal processing" but domestic pets can become infected if they eat the raw meat.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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