'US vaccine may be behind bird flu'

Added At: 2013-08-10 9:25 PM

Last Updated At: 2013-08-10 9:25 PM

THT

A rapid response team disposing of bird flu-infected fowls after culling them, at Bisworam Hengwju's farm in Chittapol, Bhaktapur, on Saturday.

ISHWORKAJI KHAIJU

Tulsiram Dhukkhwa, chairman of the Poultry Farmers’ Association (Bhaktapur), said many poultry farmers in the district have complained that bird flu broke out in the district because of unauthorised use of vaccines. “Unauthorised vaccines are responsible for the bird flu outbreak in Kathmandu and Bhaktapur,” he said.
He said vaccines must have caused outbreak of bird flu in many places all at once. Dhukkhwa said powerful countries have been using poor countries like Nepal as a laboratory. “If Nepal has been used to test vaccine developed against bird flu in the USA, it is a misfortune,” he said. Dhukkhwa claimed that samples of dead birds have already reached America.
He further cautioned the government to test vaccine and medicines used in the poultry to prevent the outbreak of other diseases.