The government is targeting a bird flu vaccine can be produced in the country in 2013.

The government is targeting a bird flu vaccine can be produced in the country in 2013.

"The Ministry of Health and other Ministry in order to discuss the production of a vaccine that can be produced quickly. Now still in progress, expected 2013 was able to produce their own," said Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung ministerial coordination meeting on Avian Influenza Control Cross-Sector in the Ministry of Health, Jalan Rasuna Said Thursday.

Agung said the H5N1 vaccine for poultry and especially to humans should be made ​​in the country to reduce production costs and ensure the availability of bird flu since it was still a threat.

Especially after the emergence of a new type of bird flu virus H5N1 is a new clade (2.3.2) which is different from the causes of bird flu in chickens and humans from H5N1 virus clade old (2.1.3).

In addition to targeting the production of bird flu vaccines, year 2013 Court said the government would allocate more funds for the compensation of depopulation (culling) birds affected by bird flu.

"It's a challenge to date, but is still being done despite the poultry depopulation compensation funds are not available," said Agung.

Going forward, Bappenas and the Ministry of Finance called the Court will seek to increase the budget in the face of pandemic preparedness, including compensation and operational prevention and control of avian influenza and zoonotic.