How Chile is taking lessons learned from its Covid-19 response to address antibiotic use in salmon farming

 

The bacterial disease salmon rickettsial syndrome (SRS) has been a major impediment toward the Chilean salmon-farming industry's achievement of its pledge to reduce its antibiotic usage 50 percent by 2025. Through the Yelcho Project, which was launched in March 2024 as part of a larger collaboration to push for a reduction in the industry’s use of antibiotics, the industry is seeking to apply lessons from Chile's highly successful Covid-19 approach in its efforts to tackle SRS. Just two years after Chile began its vaccinations against Covid-19, about 92 percent of the country's population had been administered at least one dose, far outpacing all of its neighbors and many countries worldwide, due in large part to an approach by the government to obtain as many vaccine doses as possible. It diversified its agreements with potential suppliers, while academic institutions ensured doses by partnering with laboratories to perform clinical trials in the country.

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