confident that a good result will materialise in two years.

The Russian Animal and Plant Health  Authority called Rosselkhoznadzor recently told a news agency in Russia that in a couple of years it would create a bird flu vaccine that would revolutionise the fight against the bird flu disease. The agency has been working on the bird flu vaccine for a year now and is extremely confident that a good result will materialise in two years.

A spokesman from the health agency Nikolay Vlasov, said that this particular bird flu vaccine would control the spread of the H5N1 flu virus in wild birds which are considered to be the major transporters of the disease. The vaccination of the wild birds could be done by the oral route meaning that the birds would not have to be captured to be vaccinated but bird seed could be laid out in high risk areas which contained the special bird flu vaccine.

In 2005 and 2006 over 1 million birds were killed each year from the bird flu disease in Russia however this year numbers have greatly dropped and it is estimated that they will be only about 250,000 deaths. Russia is at great risk from an all out bird flu pandemic as it has over 3 billion birds classified as domestic poultry.

In huge countries like Russia it is reckoned that there been some bird flu outbreaks in farms that have never been reported and that were either just hushed up by the farmers or by the Russian health authorities not wishing to damage the poultry exports.

Ukmedix News hopes that the Russians come up with the bird flu vaccines soon as millions of birds have to be culled each and every year from the bird flu virus and this has an extremely bad effect on poultry farmers and the confidence that consumers have in eating chicken and other birds.