The administration of those first 50,000 doses will be done according to the general management criteria of this area, taking into account the areas of maximum and minimum of the disease and technical criteria more effective in trying to prevent the spread of the disease.
The proposal is original vaccinate all farms with outbreaks declared “with the intention of improving the condition of the animals and thus facilitating their movements after vaccination.” In a second move, on the farms located in radius of 5 kilometers of these first “to keep the dispersion.”
A quantity of 7,000 doses will also be reserved to cater for livestock movements.
According to the latest data Of those available to the Ministry, there are 200 confirmed outbreaks of bluetongue in the islands, of which There are 192 in Mallorca.
In addition, there are 5 more issues to come know the results of the samples.
Next Monday, November 4, agriculture is calling Animal Health meeting to deal with various issues related to this epidemic. At the meeting, very specific decisions were made regarding the Download the bluetongue serotype 3 and regarding the epizootic hemorrhagic diseasewhich adversely affects cattle. The Balearic Islands are the community only currently independent free from this disease.
