The FMD Menace in India!
There are loads of FMD outbreaks ongoing in animals. Why?A new strain of the virus? No. Not yet reported.
Vaccination? Veterinarians and Farmers need to be hanged it may be their fault only.
How does the corruption in FMD Vaccines keep on going?
1. After an outbreak of FMD, there is no FMD for about 2.5 years and vaccines used are then of low quality or of no standard quality.
2. Vaccine quality control is not practiced at the producers' end.
3. Vaccine quality monitors (only in the Government sector) have none, or insufficient facilities to test vaccines but are pressured to pass the batches in time. In the only National Veterinary Vaccine Testing Institute (ICAR-IVRI) there is not a single NABL-accreditated Laboratory that passes thousands of vaccine batches year after year and CDSCO approves the testing in the facility. What a mockery with Livestock owners?
4. Vaccine quality control authorities have an inherent tendency to become corrupt as we all, most Indians. In the institute research review committee (IRC) discussion (on 01-03-2024) of results of an experiment conducted at the Bengaluru campus of IVRI revealed that the animal having the FMD virus VNT titers 64 succumbed to the FMD challenge, the question is why are we passing the FMD vaccine if they induce VNT titer of just 45 or more? Is there not an urgent need to change the criteria for declaration of FMD vaccine effective?
5. There are no criminal proceedings against substandard vaccine producers.
6. They blame farmers all the time for no-on-time vaccination but sit silent when FMD outbreaks occur on Government farms.
7. The government has never punished directors and animal farm incharges if there is FMD nor take any action against vaccine providers.
8. Blame-game overpowering all the scientific facts all the time.
9. Those who try to speak about poor vaccine quality and poor vaccination are booked to fight by leveling N number of irrelevant charges.
10. Farmers and their animals are not a big concern to the administration.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332865437_Foot_and_Mouth_Disease_Control_Program_FMD-CP_Corruption_Syndicate_of_India
https://azad-azadindia.blogspot.com/2021/02/corruption-in-fmd-vaccine-quality.html?m=1
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353430546_Technical_Report_on_Control_of_Foot_and_Mouth_Disease_in_India