vaccination reaches 99.63% of the herd, or 29.5 million head



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São Paulo, 19/07 – The first stage of vaccination against FMD, carried out in May in Mato Grosso, reached 99.63% of the State's livestock, ie 29,568,091 heads of cattle and buffaloes. According to a survey of the Institute of Defense of Agriculture and Livestock of the State of Mato Grosso (Indea / MT), the highest vaccination rate was recorded in the municipality of Alta Floresta, where 100% of the herd of 780,834 heads received the vaccine. The city with the largest herd is Caceres, with 1,087,826 heads, or 99.92%, vaccinated.

Since 2005 the stages have reached vaccination rates above 99%. In 1996, the last outbreak of the disease occurred in the state and, currently, Mato Grosso is recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as free from FMD with vaccination. Immunization campaigns are still ongoing as four municipalities in the west are bordered by Bolivia (Cáceres, Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, Pontes and Lacerda and Porto Esperidião).

With an already structured planning, Indea-MT aims to start with the withdrawal of the vaccine in the northern municipalities, from next year

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