October 5, 2012
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan livestock vaccines contain pseudorabies virus
Pseudorabies (Aujeszky's disease) virus has been detected in a livestock vaccine that killed thousands of sheep in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in September.
This was according to a report by KyrTAG on October 1.
Pseudorabies is an animal ailment caused by the herpes virus. The tainted vaccine was phony and not from a Russian research centre (as originally reported), the Russian Agricultural Academy (RAA) said in a finding that it sent to the Kyrgyz State Inspectorate for Sanitary, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Safety.
The RAA compared samples of the genuine vaccine to samples of the tainted vaccine that the Kyrgyz sent to Moscow. Kyrgyz farmers received the tainted vaccine from Uzbekistan.
