More than 700 poultry have been vaccinated against influenza since June 1 in Komi

On Wednesday, June 14, at a regular operational meeting in the government of the republic, the regional minister of agriculture and consumer market Ildar Andaryanov specified that more than 700 heads of poultry in 67 private farmsteads received preventive vaccinations in two weeks.

Farms in the capital of Komi and the village of Storozhevsk, located within a five-kilometer radius from places of mass death of gulls, turned out to be at risk. Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been observed since mid-May. In samples of pathological material, the genome of the H5N1 subtype virus was found. When immunizing livestock, the inactivated emulsified vaccine "Flu Protect H5" is used.