The Xunta begins this Tuesday a vaccination campaign against bluetongue, a disease that affects cattle and of which four sources of contagion have recently been detected in Galicia, two in Ourense, in Castro Caldelas and Sarreaus, which will immunize more than 300,000 animals.
The vaccination campaign will be carried out in the areas included in the declared restriction area, which include all existing farms in the provinces of Pontevedra and Ourense, as well as those located in the regions of Sarria, Chantada and Terra de Lemos. -Quiroga, in the south of Lugo.
The Xunta warns that in these areas the vaccination of all bovine and ovine animals over three months of age will be mandatory and free. This campaign will immunize a total of 256,000 bovine animals and 87,000 sheep, according to the forecasts of the Xunta.
The staff hired by the Consellería do Medio Rural will convene from March 7 to the different sheep farms, which will receive only one dose, and bovines, which will need two intramuscular guidelines separated in 21 days.
The Ministry recalls that the vaccine will be an essential requirement to be able to move animals when the period free of Culicoides mosquitoes, insects that transmit this disease, ends.
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