Africa-Press – Tanzania. Dr Stella Bitanyi, CEO of the Tanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency (TVLA), made this appeal here yesterday, in a media briefing on the current work plan of the agency.
“The use of drugs, especially antibiotics, can also affect humans due to eating of the remains of those drugs in foods,” she said, urging that breeders should heed the advice given to control unapproved drugs.
The situation is a major problem facing the world at the moment, she said, noting that TVLA samples of blood of various animals for examination and diagnosis, had shown the presence of immunity against the parasite in their blood.
Since 2017/2018 a total of 163,722 samples from various animals were received for examination and were diagnosed with diseases. Those identified in large numbers are Newcastle disease, East Coast Fever (ECF), chicken pox, swine fever, anthrax, abortion disease, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), goats and sheep pneumonia, and rabies, she said
TVLA is engaged in the production and distribution of livestock vaccines through the Tanzania Vaccine Institute (TVI) at Kibaha in Coast Region, she said, noting that TVI is producing seven vaccines, where its 2021/2022 output stood at 65m doses.
“Since vaccines cannot be produced and wait for customers, the factory produces according to market demand. The full potential of vaccine production is more than 100m doses per year,” she stated, pointing out that the TVLA facility produces heat-resistant vaccines.
Over 10m people are at risk of losing their lives globally due to the consumption of meat from livestock with unapproved prescription of veterinary drugs which make pathogens build resistance and become dangerous to human health, she added.
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