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China starts producing pig-borne disease vaccine
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-28 21:03 People in southwest China that
affected by a pig-borne disease are expected to receive vaccines soon.
According to experts with the team sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to the
area of the outbreak, the vaccines for streptococcus swine type II, a bacteria
carried by pigs, will soon be batch-produced in south China's Guangdong Province
and are expected to reach Sichuan Province in about one week after being
inspected by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Yongshun biomedical company in Guangdong will be the first to mass-produce
the vaccines. It has already produced a small number of vaccines after receiving
emergency training from the expert team.
Ning yubao, a member of the expert team and researcher with the China
veterinarian medicine monitoring institute, said the vaccine should help control
the outbreak.
The Ministry of Health announced 152 confirmed or suspected infections by
noon on Thursday, killing 31 people. All those infected are reported to have
handled sick pigs.
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