23 November 2012

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South America

The FMD vaccine, SENACS have said, protects against serotypes: 01 Campos, A24 Cruzeiro and C3 Indaial (trivalent) and state the vaccine must be pink, homogeneous and kept from sunlight to ensure efficacy.

Equipment required for vaccination

• Syringes : have at least 2 syringes, replacement parts and provide enough needles (15 x 18 and / or 20 x 20).
• metal container to sterilize equipment
• Conservative, or other equipment that serve to maintain the cold chain.
• Vaccines: allow for 2 oer cent wastage for losses.

Application of the vaccine

• Shake the bottle before inserting the syringe biological.
• Check the dosing syringe before vaccination.
• Remove the air properly
• It should be applied in the middle third of the neck
• The vaccinator must load the vaccine, protecting the bottle from sunlight
• The vaccine and syringe must be kept cold (not in the pocket or in your hand)
• Dose: 5 ml for cattle and buffaloes in all categories
• In case reflux apply total dose

Cold chain vaccine

• Keep the vaccine at a temperature between 2 º 8 º C permanently
• The vaccine must be transported in coolers from veterinary to livestock farms with plenty of ice, in the ratio of 3 parts ice to 1 part vaccine.
• The vaccine should not be frozen, cover the jars of sun rays
• The cold water does not maintain the cold chain
• The loaded syringes must stay within the conservative capped and remove them only at the time of the application.
• It must control the temperature of the vaccines before the start of vaccination and more hours in the day high temperatures and record it in a spreadsheet
• Do not use the ice of vaccines for other purposes.

Important to note

• The animals to be vaccinated should be healthy and rested
• They should not be subjected to abuse of any kind or situations that produce stress (castration, branding, palpations)
• The animals exhibiting apparent disease should not be vaccinated until they have a diagnosis. Only those can receive vaccines healthy.
• It is important to note that the success of vaccination depends not only used but also the good biological management (transport, storage and application) thereof.
• Sterilization and disinfection of equipment, to be performed in order to reduce the possibility of post-vaccination undesirable inflammation.

Owner's Obligation

Producers of any scale arerequired to vaccinate for the period specified by SENACSA.

Remember

• The vaccine does not harm the animal, induce abortions, or leave residues residues in animal products.
• The vaccine is a safe product which has been approved by the laboratory of SENACSA.
• All vaccine vials should have a stamp of approval by the SENACSA.

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