Vietnam promotes research to produce foot and mouth vaccine

Deputy Minister Vu Van Tam said that Vietnamese management and research agencies are promoting research to produce vaccines for foot and mouth disease in the country, helping Vietnam take initiative in disease prevention.

Research on producing foot and mouth vaccine

At the International Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on October 20, in Hanoi, Deputy Minister Vu Van Tam said that foot and mouth disease is one of the dangerous diseases. animals and are the main barrier to international trade in animals and animal products.

Currently, Vietnam is trying to control foot and mouth disease through implementing national programs to control and pay foot and mouth disease with 2 periods (2006-2015).

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is proposing the Government to continue implementing the disease prevention program in phase 3 (2016-2020). Vietnam hopes to receive the support and coordination of actions of countries in the region in order to control the disease more effectively.

Veterinary staff vaccinated against disease for pigs raised on a household scale.(Photo: Dinh Hue / TTXVN).

According to Mr. Ngo Thanh Long, Deputy Director of Region VI Animal Health Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, foot and mouth disease is the first disease in the list of infectious diseases that need global control by name. items of diseases of the World Veterinary Organization.

Vietnam wants to export animal products to control foot and mouth disease. The control has 2 important levels. A level is to control the disease under vaccination conditions and at a higher level of disease control in the absence of vaccination.

Ngo Thanh Long said one of the important tools to control foot and mouth disease is vaccination . The control of foot and mouth disease in Vietnam is not too difficult, but it is necessary to have enough vaccination vaccines with a ratio of over 90% and continuous injections for 5 years. This is the experience from developed countries.

However, according to Mr. Ngo Thanh Long, Vietnam's biggest difficulty is not enough vaccines . Meanwhile, research capacity as well as domestic vaccine production, Vietnam is capable of doing so. Therefore, functional departments need to gather scientists, especially vaccine manufacturing companies, to jointly produce to proactively vaccinate in control of foot and mouth disease.