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Indonesia to import 40 million doses of bird flu vaccine in 2004

The Indonesian government will allow the private company to import 40 million doses of bird flu vaccine this year and sees China as one of the possible suppliers, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday.


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The Indonesian government will allow the private company to import 40 million doses of bird flu vaccine this year and sees China as one of the possible suppliers,the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday.

The director of the animal husbandry of the ministry, Sofyan Sudrajat, said that it is sill possible to increase the number of import doses of the vaccine if it is not sufficient.

"Temporarily, we admit 40 million doses," Sudrajat told reporters after a hearing of the ministry with the House of Representative's Commission Three at the parliament building.

Minister of Agriculture Bungaran Saragih disclosed that a team had visited China to see the possibility of purchasing the vaccine.

Following the spread of the Avian influenza, the Indonesian government decided to import vaccine in a limited doses, animal husbandry director Sudrajat said.

The government on Sunday confirmed the avian influenza, or birdflu, outbreak in the country with the first case occurring on Aug.29 in Pekalongan district in Central Java province, before spreading to other areas.

Some 4.7 million chickens have died since August, with 60 percent dying of Newcastle disease and 40 percent of a combinationof Newcastle disease and avian influenza, and at least 400 farms have been afflicted by the outbreak.




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