Dankvert announced Russia's complete dependence on imports of eggs for vaccines

The development of domestic production of eggs without pathogenic microflora, which are needed for the manufacture of vaccines, is a strategic issue, said Sergey Dankvert , HEAD of ROSSELKHOZNADZOR . While such eggs RUSSIAimport from abroad

Russia is completely dependent on the import of chicken eggs, which are necessary for the production of vaccines, including against covid-19 . This was stated in an interview with RBC by the head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert.

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To produce high-quality vaccines, Dankwert says, eggs that are free of pathogens are needed. “There are special factories that produce these eggs, but there are no such factories in our country at all. The eggs used for the production of vaccines are all imported,” says the head of Rosselkhoznadzor.

Special eggs are needed not only for CORONAVIRUS vaccines, but also for other vaccines used in medicine, Dankvert points out. For example, the production of a flu vaccine begins with eggs: chicken embryos are injected with a certain strain of the influenza virus, which will multiply within 48 hours in the allantoic sac of the chicken embryo - a cavity with liquid at the blunt end of the egg. Two days later, this fluid with the virus is pumped out of the embryo with a vacuum, the purified virus is isolated from it and protein is obtained - the basis of the future vaccine.

The Ministry of Agriculture responded to reports about the risk of a shortage of eggs Society