Unauthorized vaccines against bird flu and African swine fever are reportedly being smuggled into the country in tumblers and plastic glasses concealed in travel luggage from Vietnam and nearby countries, according to the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Based on the letter of BAI OIC-director Enrico Miguel Capulong to Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio, significant quantities of ASF and avian influenza vaccines have entered the country through small tumblers, plastic glasses and similar improvisations with dry ice as preservative.
He emphasized that the entry and possible use of premature and unauthorized vaccines could lead to unwanted flare ups of animal disease outbreaks. In a memorandum, Rubio directed all district collectors, sub-port collectors and other personnel concerned to exercise control in preventing the entry of the smuggled vaccines to the country.
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