20.10.2012

The Drug Administration authorities have given permission to import avian influenza vaccine to start immunization program experimentally aiming to prevent the deadly virus from spreading to local poultry industry in Bangladesh.
The government's drug regulatory authority allowed three drug importing companies to import avian influenza vaccine from the US, the Netherlands and China.
The vaccination will begin experimentally in Gazipur district and partly in one poultry hatchery and five firms in Kishorganj in Dhaka division.
Meanwhile, the number of farms has come down to 60,824 from 114,763 during the last one and a half years following the spread of avian influenza.
Poultry farmers repeatedly demanded that the authorities concerned allow vaccine against the influenza as it spread out epidemically in the country and destroyed millions of chickens during the last six years.
The vaccine will not be sold commercially and it will be controlled by the authorities.