Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has received South Africa\u2019s (SA) first major consignment of one million high-potency Foot-and-Mouth Disease vaccines from Argentina at the OR Tambo International Airport.<\/p>\n
The vaccines from Biogenesis Bago will be used to vaccinate SA\u2019s 14-million-plus national cattle herd.<\/p>\n
This consignment will supplement the existing monthly stock from the Botswana Vaccine Institute and upcoming shipments from Turkey.<\/p>\n
Biogenesis Bago expects to ship five million more doses by the end of March.<\/p>\n
Steenhuisen says the country is now better equipped to respond to the outbreaks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe vaccinated the largest number of animals in our history last year, where two million vaccines were administered. Where there was an issue was the fact that our sole vaccine supplier had to shut their factory for a period over December and that meant it disrupted our supply. What did we do? We went and found other vaccines in other parts of the world, fast-tracked them through a sovereign process and we\u2019re now receiving the first million of those doses. There\u2019ll be another million and a half next week, another million after that and then from the middle of March, we\u2019ll be able to get five million doses from Biogenesis Bago alone,\u201d says Steenhuisen.<\/p>\n
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