Torit Vaccinates Chicken against Newcastle Disease
The Eastern Equatoria State Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries (SMARF) has announced plans to vaccinate poultry against new castle disease in Torit town. 26 March 2013 By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 25 March 2013 [Gurtong] – Acting director for Veterinary Services and Livestock Development, Mr. Quinto Asaye Alex has disclosed that the Ministry has started the exercise by administering vaccines to chickens following outbreak of the virus disease in the region. He elaborated that the vaccination is on cost recovery where two birds are given a vaccine by paying a one South Sudan pound. According to Mr. Asaye, the new castle disease has no curative medicine but birds can be prevented from the disease through vaccination against the virus. Strongly advising farmers to combine their birds with neighbours at one home or site for the vaccination, Mr. Asaye explained that one vial of a vaccine treats up to 100 chickens. He has advised any interested farmers to come for registration and necessary arrangements at the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries in Torit so to enable officials vaccinate their chickens in a convenience time. Suspicions have begun as many of state residents have launched complain of late vaccination and have blamed the state ministry for starting the exercise when most farmers have already lost their birds to the Newcastle disease. Farmers who requested to be unnamed have highly welcomed the initiative to set off when almost all the farmers need the vaccines and services due to the ongoing breakout of the disease. Newcastle disease is a contagious bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species; it is transmissible to humans. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
