Avian influenza vaccination in Egypt: Limitations of the current strategy

Marisa Peyre, Hamid Samaha, Yilma Jobre Makonnen, Ahmed Saad, Amira Abd-Elnabi, Saber Galal, Toni Ettel, Gwenaelle Dauphin, Juan Lubroth, François Roger, Joseph Domenech;Animal Production and Health Division

Avian influenza vaccination in Egypt: Limitations of the current strategy

Autores

Marisa Peyre, Hamid Samaha, Yilma Jobre Makonnen, Ahmed Saad, Amira Abd-Elnabi, Saber Galal, Toni Ettel, Gwenaelle Dauphin, Juan Lubroth, François Roger, Joseph Domenech;Animal Production and Health Division

Editor

Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine ;

Descripción

Vaccination of domestic poultry against avian influenza (AI) has been used on a large-scale in South East Asia since 2003 and in Egypt since 2006 to fight H5N1 highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemics. The decision to use mass vaccination against HPAI in Egypt was taken as an emergency measure based on positive impact of such control measures in Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China. However, three years on, the impact on disease control of AI vaccination in Egypt has been very li mited. Despite the continuous vaccination of poultry against HPAI, poultry outbreaks and human cases are reported regularly...