Regarding the type of virus that attacks the ducks in Lampung, Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health says a new type of bird flu. Head of Animal Health and Veterinary Public Health Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health Lampung Province Arsyad said the bird flu virus have attacked chickens and birds are birds with H5N1 clade 2.1.
According to him, the bird flu virus that attacks the duck is a subtype pathogenic H5N1 clade 2.3. Clade is a group of organisms, especially species that have the same ancestry.
This finding represents a new clade was first discovered in Indonesia and is very different from the previous bird flu discovered clade 2.1. Because there are differences, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health do not know how to handle.
He said he has not dared to give the H5N1 bird flu vaccine clade 2.1. He said the central government is currently examining whether the vaccine for H5N1 clade 2.1 can be used for H5N1 clade 2.3.
