Thailand’s lumpy skin disease vaccine for cattle to be available in May

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Thailand’s Livestock Development Department is expected to produce its first lot of inactivated vaccine against Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in cattle by May, which will eventually reduce the country’s dependence on imports.

 

In announcing the successful development of the vaccine, the department’s director-general, Sorravis Thaneto said today (Friday) that the vaccine will be available in water and oil based capsules and will cost about 9 baht per dose.

 

The Animal and Livestock Biotechnology Office can produce up to 100,000 doses of the vaccine a month. The production process of the vaccine takes about two months.

 

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[hotchilli]

I'm sure the buffaloes will be grateful...

[kickstart]

That's good at the moment Thailand is importing vaccine from Egypt and Turkey ,our local shop sells LSDV for 1400 baht for 14 cattle ,if it is 9 baht /head it will help ,we had our few cattle vaccinated by the Department of Livestock development DLD,for free .

Let's hope the DLD have done their homework and have got the strain right ,this disease will be about for a while, yet you need about 80% of cattle vaccinated in an area to get a herd immunity .

Better still control the insect vector that spreads the disease mosquitos and tics ,and Thai horse flies