Libourne, June 26, 2014

May 27, Dr. Myint Than, Director General of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department of Myanmar (LBVD) and Marc Prikazsky, CEO of Ceva Animal Health have signed a letter of agreement to collaborate in the control of avian diseases in order to increase poultry production, including developing local skills. 

Ceva’s support would result in a transfer of expertise and technology in the fields of training of animal health professionals, quality control procedures, implementation and monitoring of innovative hatchery vaccinations process.

This cooperation would also be enhanced by the establishment of bilateral agreements between French institutions and their counterparts in Myanmar in order to promote the complementarity needed to design a comprehensive program.

This letter of agreement should lead to the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding between the parties.

Collaboration based on three axes:

Training  programs

The ENVA (National Veterinary School of Alfort, Paris) has solid experience in training veterinarians involved in the poultry industry. In order to develop local expertise, ENVA with the support of Ceva will evaluate the implementation of a post graduate training program dedicated to local veterinarians in order to specialize in the field of avian diseases. The ENVA notably has demonstrated his interest in establishing a collaboration with the University of Veterinary Science Yezin during his exchange with Dr. Myint Than.

CIRAD also proposes contributing to training in particular in the field of applied epidemiology.

 

Scientific and technical collaboration

As an international vaccine producer, Ceva has developed renowned expertise in this field which will be implemented in a technical-scientific cooperation with LBVD in the areas of local production of poultry vaccines, quality control, and developing local skills dealing with virological and bacteriological diagnoses techniques.

 

Field studies and scientific analysis for a pilot project

Meanwhile, Ceva will introduce the principle of in hatchery vaccination. This innovative technique allows mass vaccination of day-old chicks in a controlled environment with limited resources. It allows farmers to receive directly vaccinated chicks from the hatchery.

Ceva has signed a research partnership with CIRAD (Centre for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development), which has developed an expertise in epidemiology, surveillance and risk analysis. The establishment of a specific study in Myanmar will evaluate through different models, the interests of the implementation of the hatchery vaccination in the fight against Newcastle disease, a major pathogen.

Marc Prikazsky, CEO of Ceva Santé Animale, "this approach illustrates the vision of Ceva Animal Health-  “Together, beyond animal health” and one of the key pillars of its mission to support food supply in  quality and quantity."

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