No cases of the disease have been detected in that country. The application of the inoculation is aimed at exposed workers.
Finland will begin offering preventive vaccination against bird flu as soon as possible to some workers with exposure to animals. This was confirmed in a statement andl Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare (THL, for its acronym in Finnish).
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed or caused the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry around the world in recent years and has increasingly spread to mammals, including cows in USA and, in some cases, also to humans. In recent months, cases have been recorded in the North American countryAustralia and India.
Bird flu: how many vaccines Finland acquired and who will receive it
Although, in Finland still The virus has not been detected in humans, the Nordic country has purchased vaccines for 10,000 peopleeach of them composed of two injectionsas part of a joint EU procurement of up to 40 million doses for 15 nations from Australian manufacturer CSL Seqirus.
The country’s authorities assured that they acquired the vaccine for people considered at risk. These are workers on fur and poultry farms, laboratory workers who handle avian flu samples, and veterinarians who work as animal control officers in regions where there are fur farms.
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The European Union will buy doses of a vaccine against bird flu
Amid the emergence of new cases of bird flu in United States and Australiathe The European Union announced that it signed a “macro contract” that allows it to buy about 665,000 doses of a vaccine which prevents the transmission of the virus to humans.
In a statement, the European Comission (the executive arm of the EU) noted that the contract includes an option for another 40 million additional doses.
These doses will be intended for the “most exposed people” to the possible transmission of avian influenza by poultry or animals, such as farm workers
Source: Ambito
