EU to fund blue tongue vaccination efforts

Eu Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Marcos Kiprieanu announced in Brussels on the 16th,the European Commission this year will use the EU agricultural budget funds to fund member countries to carry out blue tongue vaccination workKiprianu was speaking at a european commission meeting on a strategy to tackle blue tongue disease, he said, the full cost ofto buy the vaccine and 50 per cent of the cost of vaccination would be covered by EU agricultural budget fundsMore than 350 delegates and experts from eu member states, the World Organization for Animal Health, theWorld Organization for Animal Health, theEU Food Safety Authority and the EuropeanDrugAssessment Agency attended the day's meetingParticipants agreed thatvaccination was the most effective measure to reduce the incidence and mortality of blue tongue disease,to reduce the loss of breeders, and to control and even eradicate the epidemic 2
007, France
, Portugal and other EU member states, blue tongue disease outbreak, blue tongue disease cases more than 50,000 cases The blue tongue virus is transmitted by blood-sucking insects such as the Aedes aegypti mosquito, mainly causing the disease of ruminants The symptoms of blue tongue disease are high fever, mucosal edema, ulcers and other , fatality rate of 2
0% to 30% , there is no effective treatment To date, the blue tongue virus has not been found to be contagious to humans