Juchitan. – Representatives of cattle unions of the Istmo, Cuenca and Costa regions of Oaxaca, which concentrate 99% of the entity’s cattle herd, —estimated at one and a half million heads—, announced that the Oaxaca government will invest 2 million pesos to apply 200,000 anti-rabies doses previously throughout the state.
After meeting this Tuesday with the head of the Ministry of Agribusiness Promotion and Rural Development (SFADR), Víctor López Leyva, the president of the Regional Livestock Union of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (UGRIT), Jorge López Guerra, confirmed the start of a preventive vaccination day to be avoided derringue or paralytic rage on the Oaxacan cattle ranch.
In the company of the representatives of the livestock of Cuenca, Gabriel Cué, and of the coast, Antonio Mondragón, reported that such a measure was agreed after the appearance of rabies infections in the community of Palo de Lima, belonging to San Lorenzo Texmelucan, in the Sierra Sur , in three children who were bitten by bats.
Istmeño’s representative added that it has been agreed that for this preventive campaign, the Oaxaca government will invest 2 million pesos to apply 200,000 vaccines.
According to the explanation offered by López Guerra, after also meeting with members of the State Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Livestock of the State of Oaxaca, (CEFPPO), they were informed that the federal government will invest 400,000 pesos to apply 8,000 vaccines in le most critical areas.
For now, he added, the first 200,000 doses that the Oaxacan government will apply will be the result of a coordinated analysis with all the livestock unions that concentrate the largest number of animals in the entity, which has a herd of a farm and half a million cattle. ; Of these, the Isthmus concentrates half, the Basin 25%, the Coast 24% and the Central Valleys 1%.
Two years ago, Lopez Guerra recalled, the deaths of 22 cattle due to rabies were reported in the isthmus region, 10 in the northern area, seven in the plain of Juchitán and four in the coastal part. At the time, the federal government resumed prevention campaigns, but stressed that when the emergency is over, it puts the money back and forgets that prevention is essential.
“At the moment we have not been told the start date of the prevention campaign, which could be next week, but until the authorities define it, we will sensitize our colleagues so that they facilitate the vaccination process”. said the president of the Isthmian breeders.+
