Bird flu vaccine trial successful in Netherlands

As a result of studies carried out by the Wageningen University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the Netherlands, two vaccines were proven to be successful in protecting chickens against avian influenza. It was stated that the vaccines are effective not only against the symptoms of the disease, but also against the spread of the virus. Dutch Agriculture Minister Piet Adema, in his letter to the House of Representatives, said that the vaccine that protects chickens and turkeys from bird flu is an important step and the results are satisfactory. Europe has been battling the heaviest wave of bird flu for nearly 1.5 years. More than 5 million poultry were killed due to the epidemic. According to the information given by Dutch Agriculture Minister Piet Adema, Wageningen University experts tried four different vaccines against bird flu on chickens. Each vaccine was administered to 10 chickens. It was determined that the chickens in which two of the four vaccines were made did not get ...