Wahyu Dwi Anggoro
IDXChannel - Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry handed over 500,000 lumpy skin disease (LSD) vaccines to Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture on Monday, 8 January 2024.
With the arrival of the latest shipment, Australia has provided a total of one million doses of LSD vaccine to Indonesia during the past year. This brings Australia’s total donation from 2022 to 2024 to 1.435 million vaccine doses to support the Ministry’s effort in controlling LSD in Indonesia.
Indonesia’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Director of Animal Health at the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr Nuryani Zainuddin, said control of LSD in the region was a shared priority.
“LSD and foot-and-mouth disease present significant biosecurity threats,” Dr Nuryani said in a media release on Tuesday (9/1/2024).
“As a result, it is imperative that we continue to build on progress so far towards getting these outbreaks under control. We thank Australia for its ongoing biosecurity cooperation with Indonesia and for this latest donation of vaccines," she added.
