The National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) announces that the first annual vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease and bovine brucellosis in 2023 will begin in March. For this first cycle of the year, all categories will be inoculated against foot-and-mouth disease cattle and buffaloes in all those provinces in which it is applied systematically.
Vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease is one of the main prevention strategies that allows maintaining a stable epidemiological situation of this disease in the Argentine Republic.
According to the schedule, the vaccination campaign begins on March 6 in the provinces of the central and coastal zone of the country. Some provinces begin between the 13th and the 20th, including the coast and north of the country. For its part, La Rioja will start in April like the rest of the Tucumán plans. Similarly, it should be remembered that –as usual– in some plans in Catamarca, Jujuy and Tucumán, vaccination began in January.
Likewise, within the framework of the declaration of a sanitary emergency due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) –established by Resolution 166/2023– it is stressed to the sanitary entities in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease, coordinators, programmers, vaccinators and livestock producers that It is vitally important to record the sworn statement of other species in the vaccination certificate, paying special attention to the number of birds present, indicating categories and quantities of each one of them, and avoiding contact with them in order to protect and minimize the risk. of probable spread of the disease.
In this sense, in the event of observing the presence or suspicion of clinical signs compatible with HPAI in birds or the discovery of dead domestic and/or wild birds, notify Senasa by visiting any of its offices; through the “Senasa Notifications” application, by sending an email to notificaciones@senasa.gob.ar; entering the “Notify Senasa” section of the agency’s website or sending a WhatsApp to 11-5700-5704.
