13.07.2007

According to the Central Veterinary Diagnosis Centre, as of June 2008, avian influenza vaccine produced by Vietnam will be partly used in the national avian influenza vaccination programme.
Vietnam is spending hundreds of billion dong to import H5N1 and H5N2 vaccine, mainly from China, and H5N9 from Italy to vaccinate for fowls. Vietnam plans to import around 500 million doses of the vaccine in 2007-2008. However, in mid-2007, provinces used most of the volume of vaccine imported for the year so the country has to import an additional 200 million doses.
This additional import has caused difficulties for Chinese producers because they only produce the vaccine based on contracts already signed with Vietnam.