DEPARTMENT FOR
ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS News Release (102/08) issued by
The Government News Network on 3 April 2008
Information Bulletin
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
has today released details of the strategy for rolling out
vaccination across England.
Under EU law, vaccination can only be carried out in a Protection
Zone. As vaccine starts to be delivered by Intervet, vaccination
will, therefore, commence in the Protection Zone only. Once
vaccination is progressing across the Protection Zone, the
intention is to extend or modify the Zone county by county, in
order to permit further vaccination. The strategy has been
developed and agreed with a Core Group of industry stakeholders.
It is designed to be flexible, taking into account the changing
nature of the disease, such as moving zones, the varying levels of
disease risk in the zones and the availability of vaccine. More
details of the vaccination strategy, alongside indicative prices
for the vaccine, can be found on the Defra website.
On 17 March, organisations from across the livestock sector
launched the Joint campaign Against Bluetongue (JAB), to promote
and achieve the mass vaccination of bluetongue-susceptible animals
in England. Details are on the NFU website.
Note to editors
1. The Bluetongue vaccination roll out plan has been published at
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/bluetongue/control/vaccination-rolloutplan.htm
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