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.
Vaccine quality? Good. All batches are declared to have standard quality by the premier Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) after testing in a non-NABL accredited laboratory.
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.
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.
11. In 2019, when many batches of FMD vaccines were declared substandard, then it was recommended that the Standard for qualifying a vaccine batch of good quality, should induce more than or equal to 64 virus neutralization titer in the serum of 75% of animals vaccinated with the vaccine is too high, and the standard was lowered without any experimentation to just 45 to qualify for a good quality vaccine. Why and how it was done, at whose instigation, and for what cost may be a matter of investigation. The recent experiments at ICAR-IVRI Bengaluru revealed that even VNT (SNT) titers of 64 were not protective.
12. It is a fact that for viral infections antibodies (humoral immunity) are not solely protective for viral infections, cell-mediated immunity (CMI) may be a better criterion and there may not be any replacement for vaccine efficacy using animal tests (protection from the challenge). It seems that QC scientists and advisors act for pharmaceuticals, neither for the nation nor for livestock health.
This is the year for the declaration of the Nation free of FMD with vaccination as per NAD-CP declaration in 2019 using >13000 crore rupees and FMD incidences are saying that it was a Jumla as many others to engulf the national wealth.
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
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
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