Los beef farmers they urgently effective vaccine against Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHE), which was declared for the first time in August of last year in Salamanca and shortly after in the province of Zamorawhere there are already 1,153 dead bovine animals and nearly eight thousand sick.
The incidence does not stop and “19 de Abril” Cattlemen’s Association, born in Salamanca and with which cattle ranchers from Sayago have joined, asks the Ministry to work on the research and development of a vaccine and coordinate a national fight plan that includes vaccination and is accompanied by economic measures to support the sector. The inclusion of EHE as an insurable disease within livestock insurance, like other diseases and pathologies, has also been requested.
Mañueco guarantees aid to ranchers by the EHE for “next week”
Likewise, this Association has addressed the Minister of Agriculture, and has requested that, as the president of the Board promised,, “a new budget item of direct aid is activated for the owners of cattle farms affected by the EHE that includes all cases after October 16, the date established as the limit for the initial aid, as well as the new aid , consider those deaths that occurred between August 1 and 27, 2023 that were excluded from the previous one.” They assure that Losses are around 20% and the viability of many farms “is beginning to be compromised.”
The association denounces that EHE “is causing embryonic resorptions, abortions, infertility in stallions, cows that would have to give birth or have given birth and come out in heat again and again, calves that are born dead or very weak, with little weight and end up dying a few days later or are also born blind, cows with low milk production, lameness and overgrowth of hooves in both cows such as in bulls, animals that were severely affected and do not recover, gastrointestinal ulcers that degenerate into death, etc.
The EHE advances in Zamora with the new year: 1,153 dead animals as of January 8, 2024
TThe entire Spanish peninsula is affected by the disease and is a restricted area. Livestock farmers fear that, just a few months before spring begins and the return of heat, the activity of the vectors Culicoides spp. that transmit the disease restarts. “While waiting for a vaccine, if last year the percentage of sick animals and mortality were highly alarming despite believing that the disease in cattle produced a moderate clinical picture, an even worse year is predicted,” they warn.
Therefore, the importance of continue to communicate either in the Veterinary Units, in the Animal Health Section of each province or directly to the General Directorate, all those pathologies, deaths or effects that the EHE is causing the cattle. “We must not let our guard down, we must continue to report cases since it is extremely important for the knowledge of the health authorities and for possible future aid,” points out the “19 de Abril” Association.
2024-01-14 06:00:42
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