Registration of a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

"On Tuesday evening, during a working session held at the headquarters of the State of Kbaderine, he insisted on the need for all parties concerned to implement the publication of the Minister of Agriculture in order to anticipate the national campaign to vaccinate small and large ruminants against this animal virus, and invited regional and local authorities to provide logistical means and human to lead the campaign in the required format and form , and intervene in time and sample emergence to resist the virus and reduce the spread.

"The rest of the tests sent to the veterinary research institute of the capital to check for the presence or absence of foot-and-mouth disease in some dubious plots of the region has not yet been published and is likely to be unclear. register the other outbreaks of this disease, "adding that" campaigns are underway The prophylactic vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease was launched at the end of last week and continues in various regions of the region.It will include 400 000 head sheep and goats and 10,000 head of cattle.

It should be noted that the year was vaccinated with about 350,000 sheep and goats and about 7,000 head of cattle.

Kbaderine province has about 350,000 sheep, about 50,000 goats and 10,000 cows.
FMD is a viral disease that affects small and large ruminants. This disease evolves rapidly in animals and has social, economic and immutable effects on humans.

The spread of small ruminants and foot-and-mouth disease in Algeria has killed more than 12,000 cattle, while farmers are waiting for delayed vaccinations until the end of January to curb the spread of the epidemic.