Kazakh Scientists Developing Bird Flu Vaccine
Posted on: Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 09:01 CST
Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency
Almaty, 21 March: A bird flu vaccine is being developed in Kazakhstan.
"The Kazakh agricultural research institute in Otar (town in Zhambyl Region) is developing a vaccine," Academician Marat Sayatov, a representative of the virology institute, said at a news conference in Almaty on Tuesday [21 March]. Sayatov did not disclose the preliminary results of the vaccine development.
But Kazakh Health Minister Yerbolat Dosayev, speaking in Parliamentary Hour on Monday [20 March], said that it would now be better for Kazakhstan to buy the bird flu vaccine [from abroad], instead of developing it itself, "because its development is a very long process".
In future, however, these tasks (of developing the vaccine) will be fulfilled by a planned National Biotechnology Centre in Astana, which will be built in the coming two years, the minister said.
[Passage omitted: background information on the bird flu virus]
Source: BBC Monitoring Central Asia
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